"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure ...

Our solar system appears to be breaking the cosmic speed limit, casting fresh doubt on the Standard Model of Cosmology.

Scientists previously thought the solar system was flying through space at 515,000 mph. It may actually be going three times ...

(CNN) — German astronomer Johannes Kepler made sketches of sunspots in 1607 from his observations of the sun’s surface — and centuries later, the pioneering drawings are helping scientists solve a ...

AMES, Iowa – An international team of astronomers has used nearly three years of high precision data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft to make the first observations of a planet outside our solar system ...

Imagine the potential for life and unique environmental conditions if the exoplanet Kepler-22b were located within our solar system. Bernie Blasts Trump At 'No Kings' Protest But Names 3 Other ...

Through the looking glass: Observations from NASA's Kepler mission ended in 2018, but scientists are still pouring over what it recorded. That data can include information about new solar systems and ...

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun, scientists said ...

Planet formation models were developed with our solar system in mind. It's certainly possible that some process could explain this in a straightforward way but was dismissed during early theoretical ...

NASA’s Kepler observatory should be able to detect planetary moons – yet to be discovered – formed by far-away planetary collisions outside our Solar System, research by Amy Barr of the Planetary ...