The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons ...

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

Blackpool is preparing for a sprinkling of festive joy soon - with some Strictly sparkle added to the mix too. Four of the ...

A mysterious object in our sky, Gliese 229 B, continues to intrigue astronomers. Recent revelations about its hidden identity ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...

A team of astronomers has identified a rocky planet with a mass similar to Earth’s, orbiting a white dwarf star approximately ...

NASA's Webb reveals breathtaking high definition view of an exploded star.