But how do scientists pronounce the name of the planet-and who named it that in the first place? Though English astronomer John Flamsteed was the first person to record observations of Uranus in the ...

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 (officially pronounced yur-un-us) was the god of the sky in ancient Greece, but actually was not the first choice for the seventh planet’s name.