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.

Uranus is actually visible in the night sky with the naked eye as a very dim star, ... identified it as a planet in 1781. For millennia, astronomers only knew planets until Saturn.

Uranus and Neptune, ... In late winter of 1781, Herschel finished building a new seven-inch reflecting telescope and began to explore the sky with it. On the night of March 13, ...

The planet Uranus, one of the gas giants, ... Sir William Herschel made history after spotting it in his 6.2-inch, 7-foot-long reflecting telescope, on March 3, 1781.

Uranus was discovered in 1781 by British astronomer Sir William Herschel, who thought he had found a new comet. As other astronomers trained their telescopes on the object, they gradually ...

This means that a planet that's called Uranus actually smells like farts but is also home to diamond rain. What an incredible juxtaposition. In other space news, the fate of the Milky Way galaxy ...

Discovered in 1781, Uranus was named after the primordial Greek god of the cosmos, presumably by astronomers with more maturity than most of us.

Uranus has been the butt of a lot of jokes (stop giggling). And it doesn't help that it's huge — roughly four times the size of Earth — or gassy with an atmosphere comprised partly of methane.

Uranus was in the constellation Virgo at the time, and has completed more than half of its orbit since then. The moon is at last quarter on Nov. 8, and new moon is Nov. 15. Keep looking up at the sky!

The planet Uranus, one of the gas giants, is seventh in line from the sun. British astronomer Sir William Herschel made history after spotting it in his 6.2-inch, 7-foot-long reflecting telescope ...