planetary

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The Kent Kresa Space Gallery will feature a wide array of spacecraft, planetary probes, telescopes and more.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Noah Petro, head of NASA's planetary geology lab, told AFP that the Moon will look to the astronauts "about the size of a basketball held at arm's length."

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

He said: "Micrometeorites are samples of the Solar System's building blocks which can offer insights into early planetary formation, Earth's atmospheric history, and climate evolution."

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

To Jef Caers, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at Stanford University who happens to be Belgian, the museum’s stance looks like “delay tactics.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Extrapolation of the statistics of double stars which are greatly disparate in mass suggests that almost all single stars like the Sun should have planetary companions.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan