The James Webb Space Telescope has captured three brown dwarfs in an amazing view of star cluster IC 348, located about 1000 ...

Gaia-4b is the most massive planet known to orbit a low-mass star. Also, see an animation for Gaia-5b, a brown dwarf orbiting ...

"Dark matter could be captured by stars and accumulate inside them. If that happens, it might also interact with itself and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Gemini Observatory, European ...

"On brown dwarfs, we know there's no star, so there's no stellar wind, so maybe there's an Earth-sized planet sitting very close powering the aurora," says Hallinan.

Astronomers have spotted brown dwarf pairs before, but these two whip around at much closer range. They orbit each other every 12 days, less than the time it takes for the moon to circle the Earth.

Brenda is the Brown Dwarf, an “astronomical wannabe … [floating] through space, lifeless and dull.” She falls in with Jori, a disturbingly self-possessed girl who latches onto Brenda with enthusiastic ...

Brown dwarfs are sometimes referred to as 'failed stars' — they are objects that form like a star by collapsing directly out of a molecular gas cloud, but which are not massive enough to ...

Brown dwarfs are difficult to find because they are relatively small and faint, and often cooler in temperature. The Backyard Worlds project took advantage of the technology known as the "Mark 1 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A celestial object discovered decades ago is actually twins orbiting each other, a new study confirms.