planet A planet is a large, Hydrostatic equilibrium, rounded Astronomical object, astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself. The Solar System has eight planets b ...

, 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 around the Sun, massive enough to be hydrostatic equilibrium, gravitationally rounded, but insufficient to achieve clearing the neighbourhood, orbital dominance like the ...

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 definition of planet, what a planet is. Before the scientific revolution, age of telescopes, the night sky was thought to consist of two similar components: fi ...

, 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 Planetary habitability, harbor life. This is enabled by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all ...

As an acronym

Professional Landcare Network The National Association of Landscape Professionals, formerly known as the Professional Landcare Network (PLANET), is a professional body for lawn care professionals, landscape management professionals (exterior maintenance contractors), design/ ...

, a US organization for lawn care, landscape architecture and related professionals * Probing Lensing Anomalies Network, 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) Planet is a feed aggregator that runs on a web server. It creates pages with entries from the original feeds in chronological order, most recent entries first. Etymology In online media a planet is a feed aggregator application designed to c ...

, 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 ...

, 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 ''The Planets'', retitled ''The Planets and Beyond'' for its second season, is a documentary television series produced by the Science Channel that aired from 2017 to 2019. It explores the planets and of the Solar System, exoplanets, and other as ...

'', 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 planet, in astronomy, is one of a class of celestial bodies that orbit stars. (A dwarf planet is a similar, but officially mutually exclusive, class of body.) * For articles on specific types of planet, see List of planets Planet or Planets m ...

, a French television channel, now known as Planète+ * ''

Planetes is a Japanese hard science fiction manga written and illustrated by Makoto Yukimura. It was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine ''Morning'' between January 1999 to January 2004, with its chapters collected into four volumes. It was ...

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

Captain Planet and the Planeteers ''Captain Planet and the Planeteers'', commonly referred to as simply ''Captain Planet'', is an American animated environmentalist superhero television series created by Barbara Pyle and Ted Turner and developed by Pyle, Nicholas Boxer, Thom B ...

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 ''Planet Magazine'' is a free American online fantasy and science fiction magazine A science fiction magazine is a publication that offers primarily science fiction, either in a hard-copy periodical format or on the Internet. Science fict ...

'', on-line science fiction magazine *''

Planet PC ''Planet PC'' was a British PC gaming magazine aimed at pre-teens, first published in December 1999. It was issued monthly by Future plc in Bath, Somerset, and was backed by a marketing budget of . Similar magazines published by Future included ...

'', 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'' #9 (November 13, 1939) – Underworld Politics ...

'', 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) The Planets was a classical crossover music band formed by Mike Batt in 2001. The Planets made their public debut supporting Deep Purple's 2002 UK tour. The band was made of: *Ruth Miller (flute) *Ben Pugsley (electric, classical and flamenco guit ...

, 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 p ...

* ''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 ''Chapter 1. Our Youth'' by BXB * "Planet", a song from the album ''

Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! ''Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!'' is the second studio album by Icelandic alternative rock band the Sugarcubes, released on 20 September 1989 through Elektra Records. A version of the album sung in Icelandic titled ''Illur Arfur!'' (English: '' ...

'' by The Sugarcubes * ''Planet'', a series of EPs by

Basement Jaxx Basement Jaxx are an English electronic music duo consisting of Felix Buxton (born 30 April 1970) and Simon Ratcliffe (born 28 November 1969). The pair got their name from the regular club night they held in Brixton, London, UK. They first ros ...

* "Planets", a song by Avenged Sevenfold from '' Hail to the King'' * ''The Planet'' (album), by Young Ejecta * "The Planet", a 2023 song by BTS

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 ''Rock ...

, an early British steam railway locomotive * 'Planet' trademark for petrol locomotives produced by

Kent Construction and Engineering Kent Construction and Engineering Co., Ltd., of Victoria Works, Victoria Road, Ashford, Kent are best known for purchasing many former World War I War Department Light Railways locomotives at the end of the war, both narrow and standard gauge, ...

Ltd in England after WW1 *

2-2-0 Under the 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 ver ...

, a class of railway locomotives including the latter *

Planet Airways Planet Airways was an airline based in Orlando, Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States, USA which was established as Airship Airways in 1998 before being renamed with the current name in 2000. It operated charter services within the USA and t ...

, a US airline *

Cagiva Planet The Cagiva Mito () is a small-engined Cagiva Sport bike, sports motorcycle. The powerplant consists of a two-stroke ' single-cylinder engine. History and development The Cagiva Mito was the first bike of Valentino Rossi, eventual 9 time MotoGP ...

, an Italian motorcycle *The PLANET series of Japanese uncrewed spacecraft: ** PLANET-A, alternative name for Suisei (probe) ** PLANET-B, alternative name for

Nozomi (probe) was a Japanese Mars orbiter that failed to reach Mars due to electrical failure. It was constructed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, University of Tokyo and launched on July 4, 1998, at 03:12 JST (July 3, 1998, at 18:12 U ...

** PLANET-C, alternative name for

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

* 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 (1906), SMS ''Möwe''. Description ''Planet'' was built by AG Weser in Bremen, launched on 2 August 1905 and commissioned on 16 November 1905. The ...

, 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. Ligi Ndogo Soccer Club ( ; also known as The Planets or simply Ligi) is a association football, football club and youth academy based in Nairobi, Kenya. The senior team currently competes in the Kenyan National Super League, National Super League, ...

Planet (horse) Planet (1855–1875) was a racehorse and National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee who, after Lexington (horse), Lexington, was considered the best horse before the American Civil War. He set a record for prize ...

, a racing horse

Other uses

* Planet, a

Jacques Vert Calvetron Brands Limited (formerly Jacques Vert Group and Style Group Brands) is a British fashion house and womenswear concession retailer. Calvetron Brands is in over 470 outlets in the UK, Europe and Canada and has seven brands: Jacques Ver ...

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 Planet Labs PBC (formerly Planet Labs, Inc. and Cosmogia, Inc.) is a publicly traded American Earth imaging company based in San Francisco, California. Their goal is to image the entirety of the Earth daily to monitor changes and pinpoint tren ...

, an American public Earth imaging company * Planet Marathi, Indian film production company * Planet Marathi OTT, Indian OTT platform