The Universe is full of dust, and a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights just how important it is.

STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds ... that planets may be forming in even more places throughout the galaxy ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where planets formed in the early universe.

MORE: How astronomers used gravitational lensing to discover 44 new stars in distant galaxy All four of these planets should be visible through the rest of the month, as long as light from the ...

Skygazers will benefit from this, since one of those faint objects is a galaxy not relatively too ... provided you are in a dark enough spot. The “planet parade” that began back in January ...

One of the key objectives of the new space observatory will be to search the Milky Way galaxy for essential building blocks ...

All four planets will be visible tonight, and over the coming weeks - if the cloud cover isn't too thick ... have the chance to see the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbour 2.5million ...