In a galaxy where change is usually measured in millennia, NASA has assembled a movie that shows Kepler’s supernova remnant ...

German astronomer Johannes Kepler made sketches of sunspots in 1607 from his observations of the sun’s surface — and centuries later, the pioneering drawings are helping scientists solve a solar ...

Space scientists have released jaw-dropping scenes capturing a star’s violent death — recorded over more than two and a half decades.

In Astronomy's 2022 list of the 20 greatest astronomers of all time, Associate Editor Michael Bakich put Johannes Kepler, born Dec. 27, 1571, in Germany, at No. 3. He was ranked behind only his ...

PART I: When Giordano Bruno promoted the idea of a Plurality of Worlds, science was clearly against it, as Johannes Kepler took pains to point out. LEFT: “Portrait of Johannes Kepler,” 1620. RIGHT: ...

Kepler's sun drawings are the oldest sunspot records with known dates. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "Half-forgotten" sunspot ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

Collected by Bern Dibner for his Burndy Library in Norwalk, Connecticut, founded in 1941. Donated to the Smithsonian Libraries in 1974 by Dibner DSI SCDIRB copy of folders 1 and 2 (only folder 1 is ...

Novelist Joshua Gilder (Ghost Image) and his wife, former TV producer and investigative reporter Anne-Lee Gilder, offer a startling twist on the story of the troubled relationship of Tycho Brahe and ...