- plural of planet.
planets
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The findings challenge expectations about how planets form and suggest that these distant, icy bodies have preserved evidence of their origins for billions of years.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
They originally formed between the present-day orbits of Uranus and Neptune but were scattered outward as the giant planets shifted positions early in the solar system's development.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Scientists believe planets began forming when tiny particles of dust and pebbles orbiting the young Sun gradually accumulated into larger bodies.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Among those possibilities are planets the size of Saturn or smaller, including rocky worlds that might exist within the system's habitable zone.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Hooke also did away with the vortices, introducing the idea of what we would now call ‘action at a distance’—gravity reaching out across empty space to tug on the Moon or the planets.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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