He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi, and Epitome Astronomiae …

Sep 26, 2025 · Johannes Kepler, German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion. His discoveries turned Nicolaus Copernicus’s Sun-centered system into a …

Aug 30, 2023 · Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a German astronomer and mathematician most famous for creating what was up to that point the most accurate model of planetary astronomy …

Sep 21, 2025 · The Kepler space telescope was NASA’s first planet-hunting mission, assigned to search a portion of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-sized planets orbiting stars outside our …

Dec 22, 2023 · A biography of Johannes Kepler, from his troubled childhood to his mission to mathematically formalize Copernicus' heliocentric model by finding divine reasoning within the …

May 2, 2011 · Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) is one of the most significant representatives of the so-called Scientific Revolution of the 16 th and 17 th centuries.

At 9 years old, Johannes Kepler was inspired by the sight of the moon turning red during a lunar eclipse. He remembered this event clearly for the rest of his life. Image by Brian Paczkowski. …

In astronomy, Kepler's laws of planetary motion, published by Johannes Kepler in 1609 (except the third law, which was fully published in 1619), describe the orbits of planets around the Sun. …

Sep 26, 2025 · Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, in astronomy and classical physics, laws describing the motion of planets in the solar system. They were derived by the German …

Jul 7, 2025 · Kepler-22 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 9.1 Earths, it takes 289.9 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.812 AU from its star. Its …