"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

Planets change orbit shape around Neptune’s size. Metal-rich stars help giant planets form. Eccentric orbits suggest chaotic planet formation.

Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system ... "The telescope was named after Johannes Kepler, who, four centuries ago, was the first scientist to appreciate that the ...

Due to the large receiving aperture of 1.75 metres, it enables the detection of debris objects in low earth orbit with dimensions in the decimetre range. Compared to radar-based detection, laser-based ...

In the early seventeenth century, Copernicus' concept of a heliocentric universe was further developed by the great German mathematician Johannes ... Kepler suggested that the planets were kept in ...

With this precise orbit data, active satellites can then carry out targeted ... out in the scientific working group "Orbital Photonics", in particular using the Johannes Kepler Observatory in ...