200 years before Queen’s Brian May became an astrophysicist, William and Caroline Herschel set aside their musical instruments to build telescopes and discover comets, galaxies—and even a planet.

An astronomical treasure is set to go on display at the National Air and Space Museum: the famed 18th-century reflecting telescope Sir William Herschel used to observe nebulae outside the Milky ...

Scouring the heavens with his sister, Caroline, Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and several moons around other gas giants. In the course of his studies of the night sky, he also ...

Named for astronomer William Herschel, the space telescope launched in May 2009 and is the most powerful, infrared telescope ever sent into space.

Astronomer William Herschel was looking up at the night sky on March 13, 1781, when he stumbled upon the seventh planet from the sun and the last to be discovered in our solar system.

On this day in 1738, an astronomy legend was born – Sir William Herschel. Among this British astronomer and musician’s many accomplishments, Herschel was credited with the discovery of the ...

He discovered the planet Uranus, infrared radiation, two of Saturn’s moons and composed many great symphonies. Now, William Herschel is finally being recognised in the city he once called home ...

Named for astronomer William Herschel, the space telescope launched in May 2009 and is the most powerful, infrared telescope ever sent into space.

William Herschel discovered a new planet with a telescope of his own design—and an assist from his sister Caroline.

The European Space Agency's Herschel telescope is up and running, with its first observations revealing water and carbon as well as dozens of distant galaxies.

A sculpture of two chairs has been unveiled in Bath as a tribute to astronomer Sir William Herschel. The scientist, who discovered the planet Uranus in 1781, lived in the city with his sister.