Using JWST, astronomers confirmed that some proplyds in the Orion Nebula surround brown dwarfs, providing new insights into ...

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

This was the case with the brown dwarf Gliese 229 B, first observed in 1995. Often described as failed stars, brown dwarfs lie between giant planets and stars. They have too little mass to initiate ...

2024 — A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf ...

This mid-infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope excels at showing where the cold dust, set off in white, glows ...

This mid-infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope excels at showing where the cold dust, set off in white, glows ...

Eventually, every stellar civilization will have to migrate to a different star. The habitable zone around all stars changes ...

A team led by Dante Minniti and including Vatican Observatory scholars maps the Milky Way in stunning detail. Built from ...

Infrared can also reveal “cooler” objects, which glow at these wavelengths. These include brown dwarfs (“failed” stars that lack sustained nuclear fusion) or free-floating planets that do not orbit a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, complex observatory that studies the universe in infrared light, which is ...

Naming your protagonist in a videogame is a sacred ritual, one which can be performed in many different ways. There's the ...