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 ...

Johannes Kepler, a 16th-century German astronomer, formulated three laws of planetary motion based on Tycho Brahe's observational data. Kepler's First Law states that planetary orbits are elliptical, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

In the early 1600s, pioneering astronomer Johannes Kepler put forth his three laws of planetary motion, which, for the first time, provided an accurate and evidence-based description of the movement ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Kepler proposed that Mercury’s sphere supports a ...