ATV-2 is almost ready for launch on 15 February from Europe’s Spaceport. It will be the heaviest load ever lofted into space by the Ariane 5 rocket, making the 200th flight of the European launcher ...

A team of Japanese and Belgian astronomers has re-examined the sunspot drawings made by 17th century astronomer Johannes Kepler with modern analytical techniques. By doing so, they resolved a ...

"Half-forgotten" sunspot drawings by Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler are showing us more about how the sun's cycle of activities work. Kepler (1571-1630), who was born in what we now call ...

Before Johannes Kepler’s Third Law, the motions of the planets around the Sun were a mystery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Using modern techniques, researchers have re-examined Johannes Kepler's half-forgotten sunspot drawings and revealed previously hidden information about the solar cycles before the grand solar minimum ...

THIS little book consists of three addresses given before the History of Science Society in joint session with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, together with a brief ...