# Top 18 Fictional Planets in Science Fiction

> Deserts, ice sheets, city-planets and one ocean that thinks. Some you could point to on a map of the galaxy; others you would rather not visit.

*By YPB Team · Published August 17, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/top-18-fictional-planets-in-science-fiction*

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## Current results (3 votes)

1. **Tatooine** — 66.67% (2 votes · score 1000/1000)
   The twin-sunned desert planet of Star Wars where both Anakin and Luke Skywalker grew up.
2. **Barsoom** — 33.33% (1 votes · score 731/1000)
   Edgar Rice Burroughs's dying Mars, where John Carter arrives in 1912 and finds himself able to leap over cities.
3. **Ringworld** — 0% (0 votes · score 643/1000)
   Larry Niven's artificial band circling a star, with the surface area of three million Earths.
4. **Caladan** — 0% (0 votes · score 642/1000)
   House Atreides' green ocean homeworld in Dune, the opposite of everything Arrakis is.
5. **Magrathea** — 0% (0 votes · score 577/1000)
   The Hitchhiker's Guide planet whose industry is building custom planets, Earth included.
6. **Krypton** — 0% (0 votes · score 576/1000)
   Superman's doomed homeworld, destroyed moments after its last son was launched toward Earth.
7. **Pandora** — 0% (0 votes · score 500/1000)
   The bioluminescent moon of Avatar, home to the Na'vi and a forest that functions as one networked mind.
8. **Arrakis** — 0% (0 votes · score 500/1000)
   The desert world of Frank Herbert's Dune, the only source of the spice melange and the model every fictional desert planet since has copied.
9. **Trantor** — 0% (0 votes · score 500/1000)
   The city-covered capital of Asimov's Galactic Empire in the Foundation novels.
10. **LV-426** — 0% (0 votes · score 409/1000)
   The storm-lashed moon of Alien and Aliens, where the crew of the Nostromo answered a distress signal.
11. **Mongo** — 0% (0 votes · score 409/1000)
   The planet Flash Gordon crash-lands on, ruled by Ming the Merciless since 1934.
12. **Solaris** — 0% (0 votes · score 409/1000)
   Stanisław Lem's ocean world, a single thinking sea that reads its visitors' minds back to them.
13. **Coruscant** — 0% (0 votes · score 300/1000)
   The Star Wars capital, a single city wrapped around an entire planet.
14. **Gallifrey** — 0% (0 votes · score 300/1000)
   The Time Lords' homeworld in Doctor Who, with its burnt-orange sky and silver-leafed trees.
15. **Miller's Planet** — 0% (0 votes · score 300/1000)
   The Interstellar world orbiting so close to a black hole that one hour there costs seven years on Earth.
16. **Hoth** — 0% (0 votes · score 300/1000)
   The ice planet that opens The Empire Strikes Back, defended by walkers and tauntauns.
17. **Vulcan** — 0% (0 votes · score 167/1000)
   Spock's arid homeworld in Star Trek, where logic is a discipline rather than a temperament.
18. **Gethen** — 0% (0 votes · score 167/1000)
   The frozen world of Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, nicknamed Winter.

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