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planet

[plan-it] / ˈplæn ɪt /


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Mr. Brunt, whose previous book was a biography of Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the eponymous engine, reckons that by 1910 Russia was second only to Germany as the most “dieselized” country on the planet.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

"It's got to be accepted that continued work is needed to keep that animal on the planet."

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

Data from ESA satellites helped researchers trace the shift and build a more detailed picture of what is happening near the center of the planet.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

Indeed, it’s difficult to estimate how space junk is currently orbiting our planet.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

They look like they’d sooner belong on the Firestride planet than they would back home.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Stars and planets appear in the sky next to the blotted-out Sun.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

A radio telescope like the giant Lovell dish catches radio signals from distant stars, galaxies and planets in space, turning them into pictures and scientific data.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

The e-Merlin networks research has helped shine a light on how planets and their parent stars form and how galaxies evolve.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

The researchers now plan to apply their theory to additional moons and to possible exomoon systems around distant planets.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

She’s like the sun and they’re a bunch of little planets.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston




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