Currently, only about 1% of stars host giant planets or brown dwarfs that our telescopes can photograph directly. This scarcity raises a question: how can we uncover these so discreet objects, drowned ...

An orange, striated sphere hangs in space with stars behind it with a line from it drawn to a box that contains a space-filling model of phosphine where phosphorus is orange and hydrogen is white.

An illustration of the Wolf 1130ABC triple system, which is composed of a red dwarf star (left), a white dwarf (center) and the brown dwarf where phosphine was detected (right). Adam Burgasser For the ...

Brown dwarfs: too small to be stars, too big to be planets. Only discovered in the 1990s, these in-between cosmic objects aren’t big enough to burn as hot and bright as a true star, instead usually ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars. The discoveries are the first results from OASIS (Observing Accelerators ...

Schematic of the Wolf 1130ABC triple system, composed of the red dwarf star Wolf 1130A (l), its close and compact white dwarf companion Wolf 1130B (c), and the distant brown dwarf tertiary Wolf 1130C ...

Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) took a stunning image of the star cluster known as Westerlund 2, located in ...