planetary
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Planetary systems develop from massive disks of gas and dust surrounding young stars.
From Science Daily • May 12, 2026
“Based on the information we have, life is one of the most likely ways we could get this,” says Morgan Cable of the Planetary Science Institute, a nonprofit research institute in Arizona.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
“It’s an extinction-level event for science,” Casey Dreier, chief of space policy at the Planetary Society, told Nature.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
David Kring of the Lunar and Planetary Institute told AFP he is not expecting any earth-shattering discoveries because of the multiple lunar probes and high-resolution images of the Moon taken since the Apollo missions.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
“Yes. It was necessary, you see, since there are four Machines, one handling each of the Planetary Regions. And all four are yielding imperfect results.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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