On March 13, 1781, the seventh planet in our solar system, Uranus, was discovered completely by accident. An amateur British-German astronomer named William Herschel had been looking through his ...

Uranus' accidental discovery 240 years ago greatly enhanced our understanding of the solar system, doubling the size of the ...

Uranus has 27 known moons, which are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Uranus takes approximately 84 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

What do Uranus, Pluto, and an awe-inspiring celestial event have in common? They all converge on the iconic date of March 13.

Orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometres - more than 19 times further out than the Earth - Uranus was the first planet to be discovered with the aid of a telescope, in 1781.

The seventh planet from the sun was first discovered on 13 March 1781 by William Herschel, a German-British astronomer.