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solar system

[soh-ler sis-tuhm] / ˈsoʊ lər ˌsɪs təm /
NOUN
planets orbiting sun
Synonyms
STRONGEST
earth
WEAK
Copernican system Jupiter Mars Mercury Neptune Pluto Saturn Uranus Venus heliocentric system planetary system

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Dr. Turyshev emphasizes that without a clear, testable prediction, additional experiments in the solar system are unlikely to yield new results.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

Yet within our own solar system, everything appears to behave exactly as expected.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

Today, new tools and approaches are helping scientists search for alien biology within our solar system and in the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars, and look for traces of extraterrestrial hardware anywhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

After leaving Earth and partying around the solar system, she winds up in one of the underground neighborhoods on Mars, thoroughly burned out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

It’s not just the largest object in our solar system—it contains 99.8 percent of all the matter in the solar system.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin