The exciting discovery of an extremely rare quadruple star system could significantly advance our understanding of brown dwarfs, astronomers say. These mysterious objects are too big to be considered ...

Astronomers have discovered a first-of-its-kind quadruple star system in our own Milky Way, a surprising find that could help scientists better understand mysterious objects called brown dwarfs. Also ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University ...

"The discovery provides a unique cosmic laboratory for studying these mysterious objects." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A rare ...

Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and elsewhere report the discovery of a new brown dwarf about 60 times more massive than Jupiter. The newfound substellar object, ...

An artist's impression of the UPM J1040−3551 system against the backdrop of the Milky Way as observed by Gaia. On the left, UPM J1040−3551 Aa & Ab appears as a distant bright orange dot, with an inset ...

An artist's depiction of the newly discovered "quadruple system" within the Milky Way. In it, two brown dwarfs orbit each other at the right, and together, they orbit a pair of red dwarf stars at the ...

Astronomers found a rare quadruple system of two red dwarfs and two brown dwarfs 82 lightyears away, offering new insight into these elusive objects. (Nanowerk News) The "exciting" discovery of an ...