Johannes Kepler, a German mathematician born in 1571, is best known for formulating the laws of planetary motion. However, not everyone knows he was also a keen observer of the Sun. In 1607 ...

Johannes Kepler’s laws of planetary motion were based on data collected by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helical structure of DNA ...

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

It is to Kepler that we owe the discovery that all the planets revolve around the sun in ellipses. This was the first of his three famous laws of planetary motion, which describe mathematically ...