Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), the talented astronomer whose work paved the way for Newton’s Law of Gravity, ate pomegranates with curiosity.

Kepler, who had his own ideas about the universe and God, wanted to make it clear that Bruno’s ideas about the universe had no basis in science.

And the idea was only 28 years old when Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571, in Weil der Stadt, Württemberg, a town in modern-day Germany.

This essay examines the cometary theory of Johannes Kepler and his claim that an "ethereal spirit" could lead a comet to appear at a providential place and time. In his account of the comet of 1607, ...

Kepler was the link between the old and the new, a visionary who lived to show that the order we see in the cosmos was the handiwork of a divine mind, well-versed in geometry.

Johannes Kepler, the German mathematician who worked out the laws of planetary motion—one of the great achievements of renaissance science—became embroiled in his middle age in a battle ...

Scientists analyzed famed astronomer Johannes Kepler’s 1607 sketches of sunspots to solve a mystery about the sun’s solar cycle that has persisted for centuries.