planets

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Australia's ballad "Eclipse" evokes a love affair between planets.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

A mission to Mars would likely take an astronaut three years—nine months to get there, 16 months waiting for the planets to align for the flight back and nine months for the return.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The mission is expected to dramatically expand the study of microlensing and uncover hidden populations of objects throughout the Milky Way, including rogue planets and stellar remnants such as neutron stars.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

Gravitational pulls from planets slowly tug on the individual fragments in different ways, causing the once compact stream to spread out and eventually blend into the background dust filling the solar system.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

Although he did not state it this way, he was the first astronomer to imagine the planets hanging unsupported in empty space.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin