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

Now, it’s been studied with the first observations from a new instrument called the William Herschel Telescope Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE), located on the William Herschel Telescope ...

A 7 foot telecope similar to this one was used by William Herschel to sweep the heavens and in the spring of 1781from his garden in Bath he first observed the planet Uranus. He made the telescope ...

Jonathon Amos follows the engineers and astronomers who are working on the biggest telescope ever sent to space, in one of the most important missions in the history of European spaceflight ...

Stunning James Webb Space Telescope images reveal new details about a pair of mysterious infrared rings around planetary ...

This is the interstellar object 'Oumuamua (circled) as seen by the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope on La Palma. Background stars and galaxies appear as streaks due to the telescope following ...

We thank the Isaac Newton Group (operating the William Herschel Telescope on La Palma) for their enthusiastic support, the Mount Stromlo workshops of the RSSA for their untiring efforts, and the Anglo ...

A far infrared image of the Small Magellanic Cloud as observed by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory. Circles indicate the positions observed by the ALMA telescope, with the ...

We have developed a method for accurately measuring the polarization of altitude‐azimuth mounted telescopes by observing bright nearby stars at different parallactic angles, and we find that the ...

This event was captured using the WEAVE spectrograph on the William Herschel Telescope in La Palma, Spain, offering new insights into galactic interactions. The collision occurred in Stephan’s ...