Brown dwarfs are smallish objects sitting somewhere between stars and planets, making them notoriously hard to find. But a recent…
Brown dwarfs are in a tough spot. Not quite a star, not quite a planet, they occupy a place between…
Sometimes, the strangest stellar finds are right in our own cosmic neighborhood. Astronomers recently made an interesting discovery while putting…
Astronomers recently spied a massive flare on a tiny diminutive star, a powerful, radiation spewing event that you wouldn't want…
A collision between a white dwarf and a brown dwarf created the object we call CK Vulpeculae. It was first…
In a new study, a team from Caltech recently used the Very Large Array to confirm that a rogue planet…
A team of Canadian astronomers viewed an eclipsing binary pulsar and used the gas as an "interstellar lens" to capture…
Astronomers have debated which objects are gas giants like Jupiter, and which are more correctly called brown dwarfs. A new…
A team of Brazilian astronomers recently made an unexpected discovery, a binary system consisting of a low mass-white dwarf with…
A study by a team of international astronomers spotted something truly rare - a failed star orbiting a star near…