Not quite planets and not quite stars, brown dwarfs are cosmic in-betweeners. Learning about their atmospheres could help us understand giant planets around other stars. For the first time, scientists ...

Infrared image of the center of the Orion Nebula taken with the NIRCam instrument on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The insets show expanded images of two faint proplyds from the Hubble Space ...

Brown dwarfs are cosmic objects larger than Jupiter yet smaller than stars. Like their stellar counterparts, they are born from the gravitational collapse of gas and dust clouds. However, they inhabit ...

Astronomers utilizing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have stumbled upon a shocking discovery concerning a cold brown dwarf. The telescope's latest observations have revealed methane emission on ...

This mosaic shows the sky as imaged by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, aka WISE. Using images from a NASA telescope, three amateur scientists discovered a star-like object sprinting ...

Astronomy has a way of defying labels. Just when researchers think they've drawn a clean line between two cosmic categories, nature tosses in something unexpected. Take stars and planets. A star is a ...

Citizen Scientists working with NASA's Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving at a staggering speed, estimated to be around 1 million miles per hour. To put that into ...

With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered two highly unusual brown dwarfs, balls of gas that are not massive enough to power themselves the way stars do. Participants in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is making it possible to detect more celestial objects we previously wouldn't be able to, including ones that can further our knowledge on how our universe began. A team ...

"This information will help us fill in the gaps in our knowledge of how brown dwarfs form and their relationship to stars and planets." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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

Coarse clouds of hot sand blow in the powerful winds of these two failed stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The James Webb ...