Johannes Kepler's 442nd birthday is celebrated in today's Google Doodle. The illustration shows the famous astronomer with a small blue planet orbiting both his face and the sun in the centre of the ...

Fauber, a UC-Riverside PhD student in computer science, seamlessly merges biography, history, and science in this amazing look at the four 16th-century astronomers whose work revealed the heliocentric ...

The International Astronomy Union and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have designated this year as the International Year of Astronomy 2009 in tribute to ...

The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 105, No. 1 (Winter 2019), pp. 75-90 (16 pages) Johannes Kepler accepted Tycho Brahe's claim that the Copernican hypothesis required all stars to be giant, ...

Zielona Gora, Poland—The great German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) arrived in this forested region to serve his last employer exactly 380 years ago—reason enough for some two dozen science ...

Almost completely ignored by Galileo and Rene Descartes, Johannes Kepler introduced ideas in the 17th century that would revolutionize astronomy and the world of science. Last week, NASA launched its ...

Somewhat eclipsed in popular culture by his great Italian contemporary Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler is finally achieving the iconic status he has long held in science. In 2009, the ...

Why is it that one always hears about the notorious trials of Galileo and the errors made by (one faction of) the Catholic Church (on a sub-magisterial, sub-infallible level) about science in the ...