Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Herschel Museum in Bath, England, has a new display of a handwritten draft of Caroline Herschel’s memoirs. Internet Archive ...

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-559114.mp3 (1750-1848) – THIS 18TH CENTURY CINDERELLA OF SCIENCE ROSE FROM A LIFE OF SERVITUDE ...

After a recent visit to the National Air and Space Museum's "Explore the Universe" exhibit, a cosmologist in the NASA Post-Doctoral Program at Goddard Space Flight Center, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, ...

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.

German-born British astronomer Sir William Herschel is best remembered for discovering Uranus in 1781 as well as other celestial bodies, then infrared radiation in 1800. Many of these discoveries were ...

Caroline Herschel discovered eight comets and was the first woman to earn her living from science. Born in 1750, she struggled to be allowed to work – her own preoccupations were always second to the ...

Wednesday’s Google Doodle celebrates Caroline Herschel, an astronomer who cataloged the heavens, discovered eight comets, and was the first female astronomer on the English king’s payroll. This famed ...