A new study has been completed in an attempt to answer some of the questions surrounding brown dwarfs. A brown dwarf is an object with a mass between that of a planet and a star. One of the questions ...

Brown dwarfs are objects that straddle the dividing line between stars and planets. They form like stars, growing dense enough to collapse under their own gravity, but they never become dense and hot ...

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 of ...

Astronomers are constantly on the hunt for ever-colder star-like bodies, and two years ago a new class of such objects was discovered by researchers using NASA's WISE space telescope. However, until ...

Since the solar system formed over 4.5 billion years ago, planets and other objects have been subject to constant change due to heating from the Sun. But a new model developed by researchers from ...

Astronomers have recently uncovered nine brown dwarfs, celestial objects often referred to as failed stars. Among them, two represent the smallest ever observed, opening new perspectives on these ...

Astronomers scouring the cosmos for new planets have made a chance discovery, identifying the rare eclipse of two brown dwarfs. "This is a great example of scientific serendipity," Adam Burgasser, a ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — One of the most common and practically useful experiments in all of fluid dynamics involves holding an object in air or submerging it fully underwater, exposing ...

Best known for driving demotion of Pluto to dwarf planet, astronomer Mike Brown discusses the next horizons in our solar system, including the hunt for the elusive Planet 9. This article was produced ...