solar system
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Among its primary goals are studying dark matter, dark energy, and worlds outside of our solar system, known as exoplanets.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
The Roman telescope is also expected to locate more planets beyond our solar system, some of which could hold life like our own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Once fully operational, the observatory is expected to vastly expand scientists’ inventory of planets outside our solar system, increasing it from about 6,300 planets to more than 100,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The mission begins with a 100-day journey to a vantage point roughly one million miles from Earth, where the telescope will then start charting planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Far from marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those schoolroom maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one-fifty-thousandth of the way.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
