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

Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the potential for ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

It actually follows its own tiny elliptical orbit around what is called the center of gravity (the barycenter) of the system ... "In about 1604, Johannes Kepler fitted an ellipse model of Mars ...

Chancellor, Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, Prof. Christian Anieke, has urged Nigerian scientists to seek ways to overcome the challenges of solar energy storage and high cost of acquiring solar ...

In 1614, the German astronomer Johannes Kepler suggested naming the satellites after ... It was the last satellite in the solar system found by visual observation – all subsequent discoveries occurred ...

In 1614, the German astronomer Johannes Kepler suggested naming the satellites after ... It was the last satellite in the solar system found by visual observation - all subsequent discoveries occurred ...

People also believed that the earth was the centre of the solar system, until this myth that was proven false by Copernicus and Johannes Kepler. They proved that the earth revolved around the sun, not ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...