planet A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a you ...

, in astronomy, is one of a class of celestial bodies that orbit stars. (A

dwarf planet A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit of the Sun, smaller than any of the eight classical planets but still a world in its own right. The prototypical dwarf planet is Pluto. The interest of dwarf planets to ...

is a similar, but officially mutually exclusive, class of body.) * For articles on specific types of planet, see List of planets Planet or Planets may also refer to: *

Planets in astrology In astrology, planets have a meaning different from the astronomical understanding of what a planet is. Before the age of telescopes, the night sky was thought to consist of two very similar components: fixed stars, which remained motionless ...

, celestial bodies used in prophecy * The planet, a term often used to refer to

Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surfa ...

As an acronym

* Professional Landcare Network, a US organization for lawn care, landscape architecture and related professionals *

Probing Lensing Anomalies Network The Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork (PLANET) collaboration coordinates a network of telescopes to rapidly sample photometric measurements of the magnification of stars in the galactic bulge undergoing gravitational microlensing by intervening fo ...

, a network of optical astronomical telescopes used for photometry * Postal Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique, a barcoding system for sorting mail used by the US Postal Service

Computing

* Planet (software), software for collecting posts from RSS feeds and republishing them on a website * Planet Network, network of video game-related websites operated by GameSpy * Planet Online, UK Internet service provider *

The Planet Internet Services The Planet was a privately held dedicated server company based in Texas. In May 2006, the company merged with Everyone's Internet, which used the EV1 Servers brand. In 2010, they merged with SoftLayer. All services provided by both companies w ...

, large dedicated hosting service provider

Film and television

* ''The Planet'' (film), a 2006 Swedish documentary film * ''The Planets'' (film), 1983 *''The Planets'', first-season title of '' The Planets and Beyond'', a Science Channel documentary series * ''The Planets'' (1999 TV series), a BBC TV documentary series * ''The Planets'' (2019 TV series), a BBC TV documentary series presented by Professor Brian Cox * Planète (TV channel), a French television channel, now known as Planète+ * ''

Planetes ''Planētes'', "Wanderers", lead=yes is a Japanese hard science fiction manga written and illustrated by Makoto Yukimura. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Morning'' between January 1999 to January 2004, with its ...

'', 2003 Sunrise, Inc. manga and anime television series *Planet or Captain Planet, character in ''

Captain Planet and the Planeteers ''Captain Planet and the Planeteers'' is an American animated environmentalist superhero television series created by Barbara Pyle and Ted Turner and developed by Pyle, Nicholas Boxer, Thom Beers, Andy Heyward, Robby London, Bob Forward and Ca ...

Magazines and newspapers

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Planet (magazine) ''Planet'' (also known as ''Planet: The Welsh Internationalist'') is a quarterly cultural and political magazine published in Aberystwyth, Wales. It looks at Wales from an international perspective, and at the world from the standpoint of Wales ...

'', a Welsh cultural and political quarterly *'' Planet Magazine'', on-line science fiction magazine *'' Planet PC'', a British computer gaming magazine *''

Planet Stories ''Planet Stories'' was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published by Fiction House between 1939 and 1955. It featured interplanetary adventures, both in space and on some other planets, and was initially focused on a young readershi ...

'', science fiction magazine published from 1939-1955 * ''Planète'' (review), a French magazine of the fantastic realism literary movement * ''

Daily Planet The ''Daily Planet'' is a fictional newspaper appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with Superman. The newspaper was first mentioned in ''Action Comics'' #23 (April 1940). The ''Daily Planet'' build ...

'', a fictional newspaper in the Superman universe

Music

* ''

The Planets ''The Planets'', Op. 32, is a seven- movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1917. In the last movement the orchestra is joined by a wordless female chorus. Each movement of the suite is name ...

'', a suite of orchestral music by Gustav Holst * The Planets (band), a classical music band formed by Mike Batt * ''Planets'' (Adema album), by Adema * ''Planets'', an album by the art rock band

One Ring Zero One Ring Zero is a modern music group led by Joshua Camp and Michael Hearst that melds many genres and sounds to create a unique type of music. Instruments Hearst plays the theremin and guitar, and Camp plays the accordion and piano. They both ...

* ''Planets'' (Eloy album), by the German band Eloy from 1982 * "Planets" (song), a 2010 song by the Australian pop-rock band Short Stack * "Planet", a song from the album '' Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!'' by The Sugarcubes * ''Planet'', a series of EPs by Basement Jaxx * "Planets", a song by Avenged Sevenfold from '' Hail to the King'' * ''The Planet'' (album), by Young Ejecta

Transport

Planet (locomotive) ''Planet'' was an early steam locomotive built in 1830 by Robert Stephenson and Company for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. History The ninth locomotive built for the L&MR, it was Stephenson's next major design change after the ''Rocke ...

, an early British steam railway locomotive * 'Planet' trademark for petrol locomotives produced by Kent Construction and Engineering Ltd in England after WW1 *

2-2-0 Under Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-2-0 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, two powered driving wheels on one axle, and no trailing wheels. This configuration, which became very ...

, a class of railway locomotives including the latter * Planet Airways, a US airline * Cagiva Planet, an Italian motorcycle *The PLANET series of Japanese unmanned spacecraft: ** PLANET-A, alternative name for Suisei (probe) ** PLANET-B, alternative name for

Nozomi (probe) was a Mars orbiter that failed to reach Mars due to electrical failures. The mission was terminated on December 31, 2003. It was constructed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, University of Tokyo and launched on July 4, 19 ...

** PLANET-C, alternative name for

Akatsuki (probe) , also known as the Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO) and Planet-C, is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) space probe tasked with studying the atmosphere of Venus. It was launched aboard an H-IIA 202 rocket on 20 May 2010, but failed to ...

* Name of several German oceanographic research vessels: **

SMS Planet (1905) SMS ''Planet'' was a survey ship of the Kaiserliche Marine. Her sister-ship was the SMS ''Möwe''. ''Planet'' was built by AG Weser in Bremen, launched on 2 August 1905 and commissioned on 16 November 1905. The crew of the ship consisted of si ...

, survey ship of the Kaiserliche Marine ** Planet (1967), research vessel of the German Navy ** Planet (2005), research vessel of the German Navy

Sport

* "The Planets", nickname given to Kenyan association football club Ligi Ndogo S.C. *

Planet (horse) Planet (1855–1875) was a racehorse and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee who, after Lexington, was considered the best horse before the American Civil War. He set a record for prize money earnings which stood for 20 years. (He earned $1,915,33 ...

, a racing horse

Other uses

* Planet, a Jacques Vert retail clothing brand * Planet (company), a financial services company specialised in multicurrency payments, credit card processing and the management of Tax-free shopping * Planet Labs, an American public Earth imaging company