The planets of our solar system move in ellipses. We've known this, so we are told, ever since Johannes Kepler devised his laws of planetary motion in the early 1600s. While it's true that orbits are ...

Perihelion, the point in a planet’s orbit where it is closest to the Sun, is a fascinating phenomenon that shapes much of our understanding of planetary motion. While Earth’s proximity to the Sun ...

After more than a decade of observations, Northwestern University astrophysicist Jason Wang has constructed an amazing time-lapse video of four planets larger than Jupiter as they revolve around their ...

The Kepler telescope, which has provided so much information on planetary bodies outside our solar system, was not idly named. Johannes Kepler, who the telescope was named for, was a German astronomer ...

Johannes Kepler was a 16th century astronomer who established three laws which govern the motion of planets around the sun. These are known as Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. These laws describes ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a massive planet in the Nu Octantis binary star system, first suspected in 2004. Using advanced tools like the HARPS spectrograph, researchers found that ...

Retrograde mean motion resonances occur when orbiting bodies, moving in directions opposite to the dominant sense of motion, experience periodic gravitational interactions that can stabilise their ...

When we are talking about astronomy, it is hard to not mention Johannes Kepler. A German astronomer and mathematician, Kepler was one of the central figures in the scientific revolution of the 17th ...