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

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

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

These objects, found to be two to three times the mass of Jupiter, help define the low-mass limit of star and brown dwarf formation. The study suggests a scarcity of objects below this mass ...

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps. For Kevin Luhman, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, ...

Brown dwarfs have a minimum mass of 13 Jupiter masses (MJ) and SIMP 0136 has 12.7. SIMP 0136 also emits very little light, though these emissions seem to fluctuate, causing astronomers to be ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

"If that limit is real, there really shouldn’t be any one-Jupiter-mass objects free ... They aren't easy to find: Lower-mass objects like brown dwarfs are extremely faint to telescopes, as ...

The researchers think that the limit between forming a star versus a brown dwarf may be at around two to three times the mass of Jupiter. But it’s hard to find these relatively small objects for ...

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 ...