Synonyms of planets

planets

noun

plural of planet

as in globes

the celestial body on which we live

our collective responsibility to conserve the planet and its natural resources for future generations

Synonyms & Similar Words

• globes
• worlds
• earths
• universes
• orbs
• spheres
• cosmoses
• balls
• creations
• natures
• microcosms
• macrocosms
• microcosmoses

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of planets

The tracking station is part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, operating in concert with similar facilities in California and Australia to provide global coverage as Earth’s rotation brings the planets, stars, and deep space probes in and out of view. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 24 July 2026

Meteorites are deposits from meteoroids, planetary fragments traveling at extremely high speeds through space that get pulled into planets’ orbits. — Megan Fahrney, ABC News, 24 July 2026

Paramount+ delivered the main full trailer for season 4 on June 15, 2026, and it’s packed with dinosaurs, cowboys, horses, space storms, dreams, nightmares, fire-breathing dragons, haunted spaceships, and hallucinatory pleasure planets. — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 July 2026

The telescope will use gravitational microlensing to detect planets in and beyond the habitable zones of their star systems. — Elijah Tan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 July 2026

That in and of itself is not unprecedented, as other rocky planets have previously been observed in habitable zones of their host stars. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 22 July 2026

Broadly speaking, our solar system is simply a collection of planets, their moons, and other cosmic objects like asteroids existing in gravitational orbits around the sun. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 22 July 2026

Curated by Our Editors There are more subtle effects as well—such as gradual changes in the shape of Earth’s orbit as a result of the gravitational effects of other planets—that make this calculation difficult. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 July 2026