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 ...

A team of astronomers has discovered a planet three times the mass of Jupiter in the Kepler-88 system. The team found that Kepler-88 d is the most massive known planet in this system - not Kepler-88 c ...

The Kepler spacecraft was one of the most brilliant technical and scientific achievements of the 2010s. By launching a telescope into space and pointing it at the same field-of-view of stars for years ...

Our solar system has a king. The planet Jupiter, named for the most powerful god in the Greek pantheon, has bossed around the other planets through its gravitational influence. With twice the mass of ...

In Astronomy's 2022 list of the 20 greatest astronomers of all time, Associate Editor Michael Bakich put Johannes Kepler, ...

The Kepler mission has recently discovered a number of exoplanetary systems, such as Kepler-11 and Kepler-32, in which ensembles of several planets are found in very closely packed orbits (often ...

Using data from NASA’s Kepler mission, astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting “circumbinary” planet systems — planets that orbit two stars. This work establishes that such “two sun” ...

Maunakea, Hawaii - Our solar system has a king. The planet Jupiter, named for the most powerful god in the Greek pantheon, has bossed around the other planets through its gravitational influence. With ...