William Herschel became famous after his discovery of Uranus in 1781, though he mistook the planet for a comet at first. At the beginning of her career, Caroline worked as William’s assistant.

Remarkably, a paper presented to the Royal Society in December 1797 by the then Kings Astronomer, Sir William Herschel, (who had discovered Uranus in 1781), includes a description of a possible ...

More than 230 years ago astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and two of its moons. Using the Herschel Space Observatory, a group of astronomers led by Örs H. Detre of the Max ...

Still, that’s what we almost had. Yes, really. The discovery of Planet George. In March 1781, in Bath, England, the astronomer William Herschel became the first person to recognize what we now ...

This galactic grouping, found about 70 million light-years away in the constellation Sextans, was discovered by the English astronomer William Herschel in 1783.

Named after the great 18th century British astronomer William Herschel, it will search a vast array of galaxies collecting radiation that emits from protostars, ...

First discovered by astronomer William Herschel in 1789, Mimas is one of the many moons orbiting Saturn, according to NASA.It was not until 1980, when the spacecrafts Voyager I and II, and the ...

Caroline Herschel worked with her brother William on many pursuits. (Image credit: A. Diethe/Wellcome Images via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA) Caroline was a somewhat unwilling astronomer at first.

(THE CONVERSATION) Caroline Herschel, the first English professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today. But even many astronomers may ...