planet
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NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been roaming the red planet since 2021, has already collected samples ready to be taken back to Earth.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
By moving heat around the planet, it strongly influences the global climate and helps maintain the relatively mild conditions found in Western Europe.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Alex Grant, a chemical engineer from Toronto, started a magnesium-smelting company in 2022 and named it Magrathea after a planet in Douglas Adams’s “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” whose inhabitants build other planets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The documentary also explores the damage being done to the planet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“But if the planet is incompatible with the Collective, we will leave.”
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Alex Grant, a chemical engineer from Toronto, started a magnesium-smelting company in 2022 and named it Magrathea after a planet in Douglas Adams’s “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” whose inhabitants build other planets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Stars and planets will become visible and birds may stop singing, as if it were night-time.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Stars and planets appear in the sky next to the blotted-out Sun.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
"This process could also occur on other planets that lack a strong magnetic field, including some exoplanets."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Nobody worried about dividing by zero when conveniently ignoring the rules of mathematics explained everything from the fall of an apple to the orbits of the planets in the sky.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing planet
Space Science (Astronomy) - Introductory
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Earth and the Solar System - Middle School
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Earth and the Solar System - Introductory
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