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.

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 ...

On March 13, 1781, astronomer William Herschel changed our understanding of the solar system forever. He discovered Uranus, a planet unlike any other, with a tilted axis, bizarre weather patterns ...

When Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens published his detailed sketches and drawings of the Orion Nebula’s (M42) ... (Great gulf) from British astronomer William Herschel. ...

Though English astronomer John Flamsteed was the first person to record observations of Uranus in the 1690s, he thought it ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Happy anniversary to Uranus! 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 ...

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.