solar system

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Last summer, a NASA-funded asteroid impact warning system detected a mysterious object speeding through the solar system.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Scientists determined the object had entered the solar system from deep space, making it the third known object to have come from another star system.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to dramatically expand the search for planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

Investors want to know that when Musk rules the solar system, they’re going to get rich along the way.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

The sheer number of actions and reactions it’s taken to form our solar system, our galaxy, our universe, is astonishing.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon