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." ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has identified free-floating brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, some as small as two to ...

The Flame Nebula, located 1,400 light-years from Earth, is a region where many stars are forming and is less than a million ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...

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 ...

"If that limit is real, there really shouldn’t be any one-Jupiter-mass objects free-floating out in ... The Webb telescope image below shows what are likely three brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, ...

"If that limit is real, there really shouldn’t be any one-Jupiter-mass objects free-floating ... image below shows what are likely three brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, which teems with ...