The rings of Saturn have fascinated astronomers ever since Galileo first directed his telescope at the giant planet in 1610. As...

By late 1847 26-year old William Frederick Keeler was out of sorts. His dry goods business in Bridgeport had burned down for a second...

Friends and family of the Keelers would have reacted with shock and sadness as they opened their morning paper one autumn day in 1850 and...