In the 17th century, German astronomer Johannes Kepler figured out the laws of motion that made it possible to accurately ...

Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA missions of ...

Scientists have discovered a distant solar system very much like our own, in which the orbits of all known planets lie in nearly the same plane and are aligned with the star's rotation. In recent ...

In a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers have introduced a groundbreaking method to map the ...

Scientists have developed a new technique that could help them understand "polka dot" stars using the transits of exoplanets.

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots ...

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same time, challenging current models of our solar system’s evolution.

NASA is raising the bar in solar science with the debut of the Surya Heliophysics Foundational Model, an artificial intelligence system built to decode the Sun's complex behavior.

A new model called StarryStarryProcess lets scientists map star spots with precision, improving how exoplanets are studied. By factoring in both transits and stellar rotation, it provides richer ...