An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

"It's really difficult to do this work, looking at brown dwarfs down to even ten Jupiter masses, from the ground, especially in regions like this,” said De Furio. "And having existing Hubble ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a population of free-floating brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, a ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

The researchers think that the limit between forming a star versus a brown dwarf may be at around two to three times the mass of Jupiter. But it’s hard to find these relatively small objects for ...

This finding provides compelling evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, a process similar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...