Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For most of us, the name “Kepler” brings to mind the Kepler ...

German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) once hypothesized that the universe began on April 27, 4977 B.C., according to History.com. The Big Bang theory did not develop until the 20th century, ...

On select Google home pages, you will see a special animated GIF Doodle, Google logo, for the 442nd birthday of the life of Johannes Kepler. Johannes Kepler was a astronomer, astrologer and ...

The next time you gather with friends and family, ask a question that's sure to generate a fun discussion: "During which season does our planet lie closest to the sun?" Unless your guests are atypical ...

Fauber, a UC-Riverside PhD student in computer science, seamlessly merges biography, history, and science in this amazing look at the four 16th-century astronomers whose work revealed the heliocentric ...

In 2009, a NASA spacecraft, fresh off the launchpad, drifted into an orbit high above Earth. The Kepler telescope would circle the sun, but its attention would be focused elsewhere, far beyond the ...

FOR those who date the beginning of modern astronomy from Tycho Brahe, and confine their interest to the subsequent period, there is good excuse. Yet there were great men before that time, who gave ...

After 9 years in space and over 2,600 planets discovered, NASA said it's finally time to retire its Kepler Space Telescope. “As NASA’s first planet-hunting mission, Kepler has wildly exceeded all our ...

NASA is set to make an important announcement about a new discovery made by the Kepler space telescope, which has been searching for alien worlds since 2009. The U.S. space agency will hold the news ...

Montblanc’s Maison Artisan Atelier in Hamburg, Germany, has been hitting it out of the park lately with over-the-top writing instrument designs (with prices sometimes exceeding $1 million) bearing ...