Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

“It's remarkable what we've been able to learn about the orbits of planets around other stars using the Kepler Space ...

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

but he was only able to do so because it had been predicted earlier by Johannes Kepler. This observation led to a far deeper understanding of the planet - where before they were just just bright ...

A new set of data released by NASA's Kepler mission catalogs 219 newfound alien planet candidates. According to NASA, 10 of the new worlds appear to be rocky in the habitable zones of their stars ...

NASA's alien planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope is pretty good at its job, a new statistical analysis suggests. In total, the study, published Tuesday in the Astrophysical Journal, validates ...

When we are talking about astronomy, it is hard to not mention Johannes Kepler ... solar system had planets travelling in circles around the Earth was forever debunked by Kepler and his laws ...

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

In the early seventeenth century, Copernicus' concept of a heliocentric universe was further developed by the great German mathematician Johannes ... Kepler that we owe the discovery that all the ...