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.

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.

As of May 1, 2018, the distance to Kepler from Earth was about 0.917 AU (137 million km). [3] This means that after about 26 years Kepler will reach the other side of the Sun and will get …

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, …

Sep 26, 2025 · Johannes Kepler - Astronomy, Laws, Heliocentrism: The ideas that Kepler would pursue for the rest of his life were already present in his first work, Mysterium …