Snapchat is undoubtedly the favorite social media app among Gen Z users. While the messaging app is already packed with features, Snapchat Plus enhances the experience with exciting new upgrades. Snapchat frequently introduces new features to its paid subscription, allowing you to change the app’s icon, see who rewatched your story, and designate specific friends as BFFs. To help you understand the latter, Snapchat’s Plus subscription introduced a new feature called Snapchat Friend Solar System, which assigns a planet to your close friends.
In this article, we will explain what Snapchat Planets are, their order and meanings, and more. Towards the end, we also guide you on how to view the Snapchat solar system for your friends.
Snapchat Planets: What Is the Friend Solar System?
You’re likely familiar with how a real solar system looks and functions. In our solar system, each planet orbits the Sun and is separated by a certain distance. If you are a Snapchat Plus user, you are the Sun of your Friend Solar System.
The first Snapchat Planet on the list is Mercury, representing the person you share the most streaks with, i.e., your best friend on Snapchat. This process continues for your next eight best friends on Snapchat, meaning your top eight best friends are assigned a planet based on how close you are to them (how much you interact with them).
Snapchat Planets Order and Meaning (2025)
Each planet in the Snapchat friend solar system corresponds to a different position on your list of Best Friends, and the order of planets in the Solar System mirrors the order of planets in our actual solar system. Since you are the Sun of your Snapchat friend solar system, Mercury is assigned to the friend you share the most snaps and chats with, Venus to the second closest one, and it continues to Neptune, who is your eighth best friend.
To help you understand the meaning of Snapchat planets better, we have detailed explanations along with their corresponding emoji below:
Mercury
In the Snapchat solar system, Mercury is the first planet and represents the user’s first closest friend. Mercury is depicted as a red planet with four 5 red hearts around it.
Venus
Venus is the second planet in the solar system and corresponds to the user’s second closest friend. Venus is depicted by a light brown-colored planet, with yellow, pink, and blue hearts revolving around it.
Earth
The third planet in the solar system is Earth, and it corresponds to a user’s third best friend. It is represented by the same color as the real Earth with a moon, stars, and red hearts around it.
Mars
Mars represents your fourth closest friend on Snapchat and is also the fourth planet in our solar system. It is symbolized by a red planet with stars and purple & blue hearts around their friendmoji.
Jupiter
As the Snapchat solar system reflects our solar system, Jupiter corresponds to a user’s fifth closest friend. The app uses a reddish-orange planet with dark orange stripes and stars revolving around it.
Saturn
Similar to our solar system, Saturn is sixth from the sun and represents the user’s sixth closest friend. It is denoted by an orange planet with a ring and stars.
Uranus
The Uranus planet corresponds to a user’s seventh closest friend on Snapchat and is represented by a green planet with no hearts.
Neptune
Last but not least, Neptune is the eighth planet in our solar system and denotes the eighth friend in your friend’s list in the app’s Solar System. Remember, there is no love or life on this desolate Blue Planet.
How Does Snapchat’s Friend Solar System Work
First and foremost, you need to subscribe to Snapchat Plus to view which planet you are in your friend’s universe. Once subscribed, you will see a “Best Friends” or “Friends” badge with a gold outline when you open a friend’s profile. The Best Friends badge means you both are in each other’s top eight best friends. Whereas the Friends badge means that you are in their top eight best friends list, but they are not in yours.
Tapping on either of the badges reveals the friendship position on the Friend Solar System. Furthermore, to make things interesting, the closeness is represented in the form of planets, each representing a different position in their best friend list. For example — if you are Jupiter in their Snapchat solar system, that means you’re their fifth closest friend. Here is how you can check which planet you are on your friend’s Snapchat solar system:
- Open your friend’s profile on Snapchat.
- Locate and tap the Best Friends badge to reveal which planet you represent.
And that’s it; this is how Snapchat’s friend solar system works. Remember, you need to be a Snapchat Plus subscriber to access Snapchat’s friend solar system. The Solar System feature is disabled by default for new Snapchat+ subscribers. You need to go to your profile -> Snapchat + -> toggle on Solar System to see the planet details.
The order of Snapchat’s best friends depends on the amount of interaction you have with them on Snapchat. So, the Snapchat user with whom you share the most snaps and chats for straight weeks becomes your best friend on Snapchat and is assigned the Mercury planet.
There are a total of eight best friend planets on Snapchat, and each planet is assigned to one of your best friends on Snapchat.
To make someone your number one best friend on Snapchat, you both must share the most number of snaps and chats with each other for at least two weeks straight.