Astronomers witness dawn of new solar system for 1st time Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star.

Published: December 15, 2024 10:32pm EST In 2017, NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter our Solar System. It wasn’t aliens.

Findings serve as 'picture of the baby solar system' It's not uncommon for astronomers to see protoplanetary discs containing infant Jupiter-like planets around baby stars like HOPS-315.

Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid methane, and lightning 10 times stronger than here on Earth.

In our solar system, the very first solid material to condense near Earth's present location around the sun is found trapped within ancient meteorites.

If our Solar System had baby pictures from over 4.5 billion years ago, they would look something like the otherworldly swirls of dust and gas surrounding the young star HOPS-315.

The story begins with a puzzle in the outer solar system. Scientists noticed that small icy bodies called Kuiper Belt Objects, which orbit far beyond Neptune, seem to be clustered together in ...