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Milky Way at the dining table: Bath art show celebrates 18th-century brother and sister astronomers

Exhibition opens in former home of William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, and his comet-spotting sibling Caroline

The Guardian - UK · Sep 4

America 250: How has telescope technology evolved since the dawn of the U.S.?

Optical telescopes have come a long way in the past two-and-a-half centuries — from the homemade telescope of William Herschel to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

Space · Jun 30

What are the mysterious lights sometimes seen on the moon?

Earth's moon is occasionally illuminated by flickers, glows or beams of light. What are these mysterious lights?

LiveScience · Oct 20, 2025

Caroline Herschel was the first female astronomer, but she still lacks name recognition two centuries later

Caroline Herschel, the first professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today. But even many astronomers may not recognize her name.

The Conversation · Aug 21, 2023

Top 10 best (or worst) terms in astronomy and physics

The modern scientific fields of astronomy and physics stretch back for centuries, and so naturally they've accumulated a lot of interesting names for objects, ideas, and phenomena.

Space · Aug 7, 2023

How amateur scientists are still helping make important discoveries

What images does science conjure up in your mind?

The Conversation · Mar 1, 2023

New Hubble image reveals a glittering starburst exploding deep within the Milky Way

The Hubble Space Telescope keeps on delivering, after 30+ years in service.

Inverse · Jan 3, 2023

Saturn's moons: Facts about the weird and wonderful satellites of the ringed planet

Saturn has the most moons of any other planet in the solar system. Here we explore some of the 274 moons that orbit the ringed planet.

Space · Oct 19, 2022

British fabricated history using Indian astronomical findings: R.N. Ravi

‘In 1772, a British scientist, William Herschel, claimed that the observation made by Indian astronomers that Saturn had seven moons was his own, and the British empire wrote a fictitious history’

The Hindu · Oct 6, 2022

10 years ago this week, a groundbreaking NASA technology changed spaceflight forever

The Dawn mission used state-of-the-art ion thrusters to change orbits between bodies in visits to Vesta and Ceres, two Solar System time capsules.

Inverse · Sep 13, 2022