When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t expecting to find one of the universe’s strangest chemical ...

Astronomers have discovered a batch of nine new brown dwarfs, also known as "failed stars," including the two smallest examples of these curious celestial objects ever seen. The new find could help ...

Astronomers have discovered a first-of-its-kind quadruple star system in our own Milky Way, a surprising find that could help scientists better understand mysterious objects called brown dwarfs. Also ...

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere in the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller On a brown dwarf dozens of light years ...

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 ...

An artist's depiction of the newly discovered "quadruple system" within the Milky Way. In it, two brown dwarfs orbit each other at the right, and together, they orbit a pair of red dwarf stars at the ...