A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

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

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope uncovers a ‘star factory’ inside the Flame Nebula, offering new insights into star formation and ...

The Flame Nebula, located 1,400 light-years from Earth, is a region where many stars are forming and is less than a million ...

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 ...

The study also found that each brown dwarf of WISE-0458 has a radius of about 0.81 Jupiter radii and the total mass of the pair is approximately 132 Jupiter masses. The distance to the binary was ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has identified free-floating brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, some as small as two to ...

astronomers have for the first time been able to probe up to and beyond the brown dwarf mass limit. "If that limit is real," Meyer continued, "there really shouldn’t be any one-Jupiter-mass ...