Astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi have precisely measured the age of a nearby sun-like star and its unusual companion, ...

Using the W.M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi have precisely measured the age of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SIMP-0136 is a strange celestial object somewhere between a planet and a star. Using the new space telescope, researchers have now ...

For the longest time, in the stellar community, brown dwarfs have been infamously dubbed as ‘failed stars.' The title refers to their inability to sustain nuclear fusion in their cores—a key process ...

The strangest part of the TOI-201 system is not that it holds three very different worlds. It is that astronomers can ...

Figure1: Infrared image showing the directly imaged brown dwarf companion J1446B (dot indicated by the arrow). The central red dwarf (J1446) is masked in white during image processing. The scale bar ...

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 at The University of New Mexico have published new research confirming three bodies orbiting the dynamic ...

It's been pretty quiet around here for auroras lately but not so at the brown dwarf LSRJ1835+3259. Located about 20 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Lyra the Harp, it ...