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moons

  • plural of moon.
  • present tense form of moon (3rd person singular).

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If many of those planets also host moons, the number of possible environments where life could exist may be far larger than previously thought.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

NASA’s Amit Kshatriya, the man behind Artemis, on the race with China to reach Mars, the asteroid belt and Jupiter’s moons.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

In all probability, Voyager 1 and its siblings—launched in 1977 to surveil our solar system’s outer planets and moons and then head into interstellar space—will vastly outlive humans, the sun and the planet Earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

This growing interest also extends to the hidden layers within planets and moons in our own Solar System.

From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026

He counted along the moons, stopping at the sixth one.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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