In probing and examining the oceanic surface of the planet Solaris from a hovering research station the human scientists are, in turn, being studied by the sentient planet itself, which probes for and examines the thoughts of the human beings who are analyzing it.

Solaris chronicles the ultimate futility of attempted communications with the extraterrestrial life on a far-distant planet.

Kris Kelvin arrives aboard the scientific research station hovering ( via anti-gravity generators ) near the oceanic surface of the planet Solaris.

The protagonist, Dr. Kris Kelvin, is a psychologist recently arrived from Earth to the space station studying the planet Solaris.

* Solaris — A planet covered by a single sentient organism in the book of that name by Stanisław Lem.

A few films have tried to represent intelligent aliens as something utterly different from the usual humanoid shape ( e. g. An intelligent life form surrounding an entire planet in Solaris, the ball shaped creature in Dark Star ).

The ultimate goal of Solaris is to reach the planet Solaris and rescue its colonists, at which point the game ends in victory.

* MechWarrior: Solaris VII ( August 2007 )-the series features 24 Gunslinger mechs that do combat on the gaming planet of Solaris VII.

Examples of the mutual inscrutability and the potentially unbridgeable gaps between races which — by their very natures — are just too different to bond or even to accept each other, include Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence concept of the dark matter photino birds, the god-like Firstborn from Arthur C. Clarke's Time Odyssey series, and Stanisław Lem's planet Solaris and the events of the novel Fiasco.

As early as in 1964, the idea of nanobotic swarms has been described by Stanislaw Lem in the novel The Invincible, which is set on a planet where the ecology has been taken over by nanobots.

* Regis III — A planet populated by evolving machines in Stanisław Lem's novel The Invincible.

In this co-production East Germany-Poland, based on Stanisław Lem's book Astronauci ( The Astronauts ), it is discovered that the Tunguska Event in 1908 was the crash of a spaceship from Venus, and a multi-national crew is sent to the planet.

The objective of the game is to guide the eponymous character through various screens to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone that will allow him to contact his home planet.

ThunderCats follows the adventures of the eponymous team of heroes, cat-like humanoid aliens from a planet called Thundera.

* Mirabile is the name of a planet in the eponymous novel by Janet Kagan.

In Sedna, a short story in Big Finish's Short Trips: The Solar System by Andy Frankham, the Third Doctor and Jeremy Fitzoliver are seen to wear ADJs on the surface of the eponymous planet.

Ultimately, the party discovers RAM, along with the corrupt Mercurian government, is building its ultimate weapon, the eponymous Doomsday Laser, in orbit of the planet Mercury with aspirations of destroying Earth entirely.

In the 1990s they created and wrote the Children's BBC series Watt on Earth, concerning the eponymous alien Watt, who was stranded on this planet.

In Robert L. Forward's novel Timemaster, the wormhole is a living organism resembling a fourth-dimensional sea anemone, " stretched " to cover the distance between a spaceship and a satellite on the home planet.

Stanisław Lem has also studied the same idea in his novel The Invincible ( 1964 ), in which the crew of a spacecraft landing on a distant planet finds non-biological life-form, which is the product of long, possibly of millions of years of mechanical evolution.

An example of silicon based life forms takes place in the Alan Dean Foster novel Sentenced to Prism in which the protagonist Evan Orgell is trapped on a planet whose entire ecosystem is mostly silicon-based.

In Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction novel The Dispossessed, published 1974, mainstream capitalist and state socialist economies on the planet Urras are contrasted with an anarchist self-managed economy on its orbiting twin Anarres.

In both the book and movie 2001, astronaut and scientist David Bowman is on a mission to track the source of an alien artifact found on the moon, which leads to a moon around the planet Jupiter ( in the novel, Saturn ); the story takes place in the year 2001.

In the novel, as the Star Child gazes upon Earth, he detonates a nuclear weapons satellite orbiting the planet.

In the novel the Dalek Prime reveals that the planet Antalin had been terraformed to resemble Skaro and was destroyed in its place.

For example a group at MIT concluded that the planet Mesklin in Hal Clement's 1953 novel Mission of Gravity would have had a sharp edge at the equator, and a Florida high-school class calculated that in Larry Niven's 1970 novel Ringworld the topsoil would have slid into the seas in a few thousand years.

* The novel Destiny's Road is in fact about a road on a planet called Destiny.

* Desolation Road ( 1988 ) by Ian McDonald is a magic-realist science fiction novel set on a planet that's never explicitly named ( though the name " Ares " makes frequent appearances in various contexts ) but is clearly meant to be a terraformed Mars.

Barrayar is a planet colonized by humans some four hundred years prior to Shards of Honor, the first Vorkosigan novel.

Paperwork included with the model kit indicated the ship was mothballed at the Memory Alpha ship museum, and William Shatner's novel set in the Shatnerverse The Ashes of Eden ( 1996 ) depicts the Enterprise-A's removal from the mothball fleet before being destroyed defending the planet Chal.

* Signal ( novel ), a 2009 children's novel about a boy who helps a girl from another planet signal her parents

* Thalassa, a fictional planet ( a waterworld ) in Arthur C. Clarke's novel Songs of Distant Earth

Ursula K. LeGuin's novel The Left Hand of Darkness is set on a planet named Winter.

* In D. F. Jones's 1977 novel Colossus and the Crab, Martian life predated life on Earth, but faced a process of devolution as conditions on the planet worsened.

* Alba ( planet ), a planet in The Hidden Past, a Star Wars novel by American author Jude Watson

The novel describes a future where the planet Earth has allied with an extraterrestrial species known as ' Starmen in their war against another species, the Reegs.

In the novel The Truce at Bakura, set one day after the battle of Endor, Luke Skywalker and his friend Wedge Antilles recover a message droid from the titular planet, which was being invaded by the Ssi-Ruuk.

In the novel The Courtship of Princess Leia, set four years after the Battle of Endor, Luke travels to the planet Dathomir.

* Gands are the human colonists of a planet in the novel The Great Explosion by Eric Frank Russell

At an early point in the novel, Lazarus Long bemoans the fact that he cannot " pray for one last landing " because the " Green Hills of Earth " have deteriorated and the planet is uninhabitable.

The 1956 science fiction film Forbidden Planet is set on Altair 4, a presumed planet of the star.

The 1997 Rolf de Heer film, Epsilon, also known as Alien Visitor, an alien in female form descends to Earth from Epsilon in the Southern Cross, and inspires an Outback traveler to better his planet.

In 1976 he earned acclaim for his first major film role, portraying Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien from a dying planet, in The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nic Roeg.

The film Avatar depicts a world ( Pandora ) that functions like a single organism, in which various species of earth and sky cooperate with the humanoid population ( the Na ' vi ) to defend the planet against a corporate-military invasion.

The film mainly takes place in 2024, with flashbacks to events in 1999, and also a very distant past on the planet Zeist.

In the film K-PAX, the constellation of Lyra is the location of the planet K-PAX, an inhabited world that orbits twin stars and has seven moons.

" Fire Time " gives the detailed history of a prolonged escalating conflict on a planet colonized simultaneously by humans who call it Mundomar and the nonhuman Naqsans who call it Tseyakka: The historical film of the human leader Sigurdsson declaring the independent republic of Eleutheria in the midst of war is clearly reminiscent of David Ben-Gurion declaring Israel's independence in 1948 ; in a later war, the Eleutherians conquer the Naqsan continent of G ' yaaru, rename it Sigurdssonia and establish settlements in it.

In the film, later modified into a theatrical movie, Desslar sees his homeworld, Gamilas, destroyed by the grey-skinned aliens, and its twin planet Iscandar next in line for invasion.

The plot of The Magnificent Seven directly inspired the 1980 sci-fi film, Battle Beyond the Stars, which included actor Robert Vaughn as one of the seven mercenaries hired to save a farming planet from alien marauders.

* The 1969 science-fiction film Doppelgänger depicts the discovery and investigation of another planet sharing Earth's orbit on the opposite side of the sun.

* The 1969 kaiju film Gamera vs. Guiron features a counter-earth planet called Terra that is inhabited by only two sinister and cannibalistic women.

As his mate was not available on the Genesis planet ( where Spock underwent the two pon farr periods ), it was implied that he mated with Lt. Saavik, a female Vulcan scientist on the crew of the Enterprise who showed compassion in guiding him through the accelerated pon farr ( in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, a deleted scene was intended to confirm the implication ( i. e., that Saavik bore Spock's child ); its removal from the film, however, struck it from ' official ' Trek canon ).

At the end of the film, Spock Prime tells the younger Spock a suitable planet had been located to establish a colony for the surviving Vulcans, so it can be assumed that this planet will be the new Vulcan.

In the alternate reality presented by the 2009 film Star Trek, the planet Vulcan is destroyed in the year 2258 by an artificial black hole created by the Narada, a Romulan mining vessel from the future, killing most of its six billion inhabitants.

At the end of the film, the young Spock opts to remain in Starfleet, while his older self stays in the altered universe to aid the few surviving Vulcan refugees, as Nero had destroyed Vulcan, Spock's home planet.

Forbidden Planet was the first science fiction film that was set entirely on another planet in deep space, away from the planet Earth.

* Iron Sky, a 2012 Finnish film in which a colony of Nazis on the Moon have been educated with a revisionist history based on a heavily edited version of The Great Dictator in which the ' Dictator ' is portrayed as a kind and benevolent leader wishing to bring peace to the planet.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the INLA developed a modest organisation in Northern Ireland, particularly based on Divis Flats in west Belfast, which as a result became colloquially known as " the planet of the Irps " ( a reference to the Irish Republican Socialist Party and the film Planet of the Apes ).

The film loosely follows the novel ’ s plot, emphasizing the human relationships instead of Lem ’ s astrobiology theories — especially Kelvin ’ s Earth life, before his space travel to the planet.

* The scenes for planet Vulcan in the 2009 film, Star Trek were filmed near Green River.

* Miranda, a fictional planet in the American film Serenity

* K-PAX — A utopian planet in the novel and film of the same name, which is quite possibly the delusional invention of a madman who claims to be from the planet.