An international team of astronomers, led by San Diego State University researchers, has discovered a third transiting planet in the Kepler-47 (K-47) circumbinary system - a system where the ...

A German astronomer and mathematician, Kepler was one of the central figures in the scientific revolution of the 17th Century. For the thought that our solar system had planets travelling in ...

Kepler’s orbit is far out enough that it will never return to Earth or get close enough to anything else in the solar system to be a problem. It will likely spend the rest of eternity as a deep ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it ... Until the likes of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo came along, everyone thought the planets (that they knew about) revolved ...