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

Every year, scientists discover something new and amazing about the universe. Some of these you'll hear about no problem, but ...

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

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 ...

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

Astronomers also aren't ruling out the possibility that it's a brown dwarf, an object that's between a planet and a star. The latest research builds on existing observations by NASA's Hubble and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects, called brown dwarfs, in the Flame Nebula. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope can pierce this dense, dusty region and see the faint infrared glow from young brown dwarfs. A team of astronomers used this capability to explore the lowest mass ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, M. Meyer (University of Michigan ... alight with star formation on the hunt for "failed star" brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are hotter and brighter in their youth, and ...

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