Yes, really. In March 1781, in Bath, England, the astronomer William Herschel became the first person to recognize what we now call Uranus as a planet. It was a history-making discovery in ...

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.

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...