Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, have discovered a brown dwarf companion orbiting a nearby ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of object that lies between a star and a planet—orbiting a small star about 55 ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of object that lies between a star and a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that stoked controversy following claims that it had been detected on Venus and ...

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While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

Astronomers found a rare quadruple system of two red dwarfs and two brown dwarfs 82 lightyears away, offering new insight into these elusive objects. (Nanowerk News) The "exciting" discovery of an ...

"Sometimes it's the extreme objects that help us understand what's happening in the average ones." Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have investigated a "failed star," or brown ...

M dwarfs, or red dwarfs, are the most common type of star in our galaxy, accounting for more than half of all stars in the Milky Way. These small ...

The universe is filled with wild and unusual things. Some of them are so weird that they seem like they come right out of science fiction. One example of this is when there is a binary star system ...

I don’t think it’s overly poetic to say that stars are how we know the universe. When we look out at the night sky, stars are overwhelmingly what we see—thousands of them, ranging from Sirius, the ...