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.

The discovery of Planet George In March 1781, in Bath, England, the astronomer William Herschel became the first person to recognize what we now call Uranus as a planet. It was a history-making ...

On March 13, 1781, the seventh planet in our solar system, Uranus, was discovered completely by accident. An amateur British-German astronomer named William Herschel had been looking through his ...

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 ...

Easily distinguishable as a dark bay east of the famous Trapezium of stars, it received the label Sinus magnus (Great gulf) from British astronomer William Herschel.

FARGO — William Herschel was a famous astronomer most well known for discovering the planet Uranus, the first planet discovered with the use of a telescope. He was playing with prisms and ...

On this day, 238 years ago, the planet was discovered by German-born astronomer William Herschel. Here's some trivia on the seventh planet from the sun: Uranus is four times larger than Earth.

The Anglo-German astronomer William Herschel discovered infrared light 200 years ago, thanks to which astronomers can now observe a facet of the Universe that otherwise remains hidden.

Incidentally: NPR's Research department says that when the planet was discovered in 1781, the astronomer William Herschel tried to have it named after King George 3rd.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) twin telescopes, named Herschel and Planck, are being carried on an Ariane 5 launcher to take up a vantage point 930,000 miles (1.5 million km) from Earth.