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 ...

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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 ...