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

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

Brown dwarfs occupy an intriguing position between gas giants and true stars. Although massive, they lack the size needed to ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shared stunning images of the mysterious Flame Nebula, a celestial marvel located approximately ...

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

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — When astronomer Jackie Faherty peered into space using information from the James Webb Space Telescope, there was something she couldn't take her eyes off of. Brown dwarf W1935, a ...

They aren't easy to find: Lower-mass objects like brown dwarfs are extremely faint to telescopes, as they lack the heat and size of stars. But the Webb telescope, which views faint infrared light ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists study a strange mass about 20 light-years from Earth. Traveling ...

It also spun very quickly, despite being roughly the same size as Jupiter ... mysterious mass could be something else entirely. Brown dwarfs, otherwise known as failed stars, are the result ...