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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The Planet Factory tells the story of exoplanets, planets orbiting stars outside of our solar system. Discover the specks of dust that circle a young star come together in a violent building project that can form colossal worlds hundreds of times the size of the Earth; the changing orbits of young planets that risk dooming the life forming on neighboring worlds or, alternatively, that can deliver the key ingredients needed to seed its beginnings....
2) Abandoned
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The continuing story of the residents of the planet Donovan as survival becomes more of a struggle.
6) Inversions
Author
Series
Culture Universe series volume 6
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. ... Elsewhere, in another palace across the mountains, a man named DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to the protector General of Tassasen."--Jacket.
7) Exoplanets
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Introduces exoplanets, examining the planets outside of our solar system, discussing what makes them habitable, and exploring the efforts to discover new life.
Author
Publisher
Creston Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"If you could go anywhere beyond our galaxy for the perfect picnic, where would you go? Asa Stahl, an NSTA award-winner for his previous book The Big Bang Book, introduces readers to some of the fascinating exoplanets we know about it. This is science at its most fantastical. What other worlds are out there, and will the young person reading this book grow up to discover even more?"--
9) Outpost
Author
Series
Donovan novels volume 1
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The first book in a thrilling new sci-fi action adventure, set on Donovan, a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the planet's inhabitants. A ghost ship, the Freelander, appears in orbit. Missing for two years, she arrives with a crew dead of old age, and reeks of a bizarre death-cult ritual that deters any ship from attempting a return journey. But maybe it's worth the risk, for a brutal killer...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this luminous memoir, an MIT astrophysicist must reinvent herself in the wake of tragedy and discovers the power of connection on this planet, even as she searches our galaxy for another Earth. Sara Seager has always been in love with the stars: so many lights in the sky, so much possibility. Now a pioneering planetary scientist, she searches for exoplanets--especially that distant, elusive world that sustains life. But with the unexpected death...
11) XO, Exoplanet
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Jupiter notices a planet circling a far star, he enlists the other planets in our solar system to send a letter, but soon there is a disagreement on which, exactly, is the exoplanet.
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"It is now known that we live in a galaxy with more planets than stars. The Milky Way alone encompasses 30 trillion potential home planets. Scientists Trefil and Summers bring readers on a marvelous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life--unlike anything we have experienced so far--that could exist on planets outside our own solar system. Life could be out there in many forms: on frozen worlds, living in liquid oceans beneath ice and...
13) The Plant Planet
Author
Series
AstroNuts volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Its happeningthe end of the world is upon us. Its time to look elsewhere to find a new home. So who do we call? The AstroNuts! Four mutant animalsLaserShark, AstroWolf, SmartHawk, and StinkBughave been created by NNASA (Not-NASA) to explore other planets. The criteria: 1. Must be unoccupied. 2. Must support human life. When the Nuts reach their first destination, the Plant Planet, it looks positively perfect for their purposes. Its lush with plant...
14) The water planet
Author
Series
AstroNuts volume 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Its happening the end of the world is upon us. Its time to look elsewhere to find a new home. So who do we call? The AstroNuts! Four mutant animals LaserShark, AstroWolf, SmartHawk, and StinkBug have been created by NNASA (Not-NASA) to explore other planets. The criteria: 1. Must be unoccupied. @. Must support human life. The Nuts land at their second destination, the Water Planet, to much clamfare fanfare. Clams are everywhere, and they not only...
Series
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur volume 4
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Journey to the Living Planet! It's Lunella Lafayette's biggest adventure yet as a voice from the cosmos beckons her and Devil Dinosaur on a truly fantastic voyage an Ego trip, if you will! Are you ready for Moon Girl to meet&Girl-Moon? Lunella isn't just smart, she's the smartest person on Earth but what good is that when the problems she faces are intergalactic? And if our incredible adventurers make it back to Earth, they might find things...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone. For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life? As founding director of Cornell...
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