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 …

Dec 23, 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 to 1630) was a German astronomer and mathematician most famous for creating what was up to that point the most accurate model of planetary …

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.

Oct 6, 2004 · Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a mathematician and physicist who not only observed, but also sought to explain the celestial dance above. As a rather frail young man, …

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 …

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 …

Kepler's model to explain the relative distances of the planets from the Sun in the Copernican System. Except for Mercury, Kepler's construction produced remarkably accurate results.

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. …

The Kepler mission was designed to determine the frequency of Earth-sized planets in and near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The habitable zone is the region where planetary …