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 ...

German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) once hypothesized that the universe began on April 27, 4977 B.C., according to History.com. The Big Bang theory did not develop until the 20th century, ...

Science is always an unfinished project. That’s what makes it so much fun. The process—collecting data, building models to explain how the world works, and then dethroning them with new models—is full ...

Kepler's laws show the effects of gravity on orbits. They apply to any object that orbits another: planets orbiting the Sun, moons orbiting a planet, spacecraft orbiting Earth.

Does orbital motion really follow a simple mathematical law? 🛰️ This video shows how to verify Kepler’s Third Law for circular orbits, connecting orbital period and radius through gravitational ...

On March 6th, 2009, a Delta II rocket was launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying a payload designed by NASA to be the first that searches for Earth-like planets in our ...