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

The comet releases exceptionally large amounts of carbon dioxide relative to water, far exceeding the levels commonly measured in solar system comets.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 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 total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan