But that methane hint may have given away one of this brown dwarf's biggest secrets: a volcanically active moon in its orbit. Jupiter and Saturn offer clues It turns out methane emissions ...

Every year, scientists discover something new and amazing about the universe. Some of these you'll hear about no problem, but ...

showed that the brown dwarf duo, now called Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb, orbit each other every 12 days with a separation only 16 times larger than the distance between Earth and the moon.

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects, called brown dwarfs, in the Flame Nebula. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class ...

brown dwarfs and white dwarfs, and many other extraterrestrial wonders. Accretion—The collection of material together to form a star, planet, or moon, usually mediated by a rotating disk.