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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers has uncovered the hidden complexity of SIMP 0136, ...

PMOs are cosmic nomads, drifting freely through space, unbound to any star. The mass of these objects is less than 13 times that of Jupiter. They are often observed in young star clusters like the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists study a strange mass about 20 light-years from Earth. Traveling ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects -- celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets -- form? An international team of astronomers has used advanced simulations to show that these enigmatic ...