When we are talking about astronomy, it is hard to not mention Johannes Kepler. A German astronomer and mathematician, Kepler was one of the central figures in the scientific revolution of the 17th ...

The Kepler telescope, which has provided so much information on planetary bodies outside our solar system, was not idly named. Johannes Kepler, who the telescope was named for, was a German astronomer ...

Of all the patriarchs of science, Johannes Kepler is the least known. We often talk of Isaac Newton and his law of universal gravity (and laws of motion, and the calculus, and laws of optics), of ...

The planets of our solar system move in ellipses. We've known this, so we are told, ever since Johannes Kepler devised his laws of planetary motion in the early 1600s. While it's true that orbits are ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For most of us, the name “Kepler” brings to mind the Kepler ...

Johannes Kepler was a 16th century astronomer who established three laws which govern the motion of planets around the sun. These are known as Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. These laws describes ...