On March 13, 1781, Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus. NASA announced the discovery on ...

Uranus was discovered as the seventh planet of the solar system. Discovered by astronomer, William Herschel, he attempted to name the planet after King George III. Instead, it was named after the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 11, 1787, the English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered two moons at Uranus! Oberon and Titania were the first ...

Throughout most of recorded history, humankind had known only six planets, five in the sky — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — plus Earth once it became generally accepted in the 17th century ...

San Antonio's Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is over the moon about its latest discovery. Leading a James Webb Space Telescope Survey, scientists from the foundation have discovered a new ...

For hundreds of years, telescopes have allowed us to map the stars and study the great mysteries of the cosmos. Astronomers knew there were other planets in our solar system even before telescopes, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 13, 1781, Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series ...