David Kipping is a British-American astronomer and associate professor at Columbia University, where he leads the Cool Worlds Lab.

In 2016, Kipping launched the Cool Worlds YouTube channel to share his research topics with the wider public.

Along with Ingo Waldmann and Steve Fossey, Kipping discovered in 2009 that the exoplanet HD 80606b (previously known from radial velocity) transits its host star.

[4] In 2011, Kipping founded the Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler, a project that searches for exomoons, natural satellites of exoplanets, using data collected by the Kepler space telescope.

[5] In 2019, Kipping proposed a method of spaceflight known as the halo drive.