At the D23 Brazil fan event, a video preview of the attraction promised "the most infamous and nefarious characters from the ...

Colombians are far angrier about crooked officials than they are about all the other problems facing their nation, according to a new poll. Asked to identify their top three concerns in LatAm ...

"This information will help us fill in the gaps in our knowledge of how brown dwarfs form and their relationship to stars and planets." Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have ...

Until now, that mission did not account for noisy white dwarfs. Fortunately, the noise can be filtered out and even provide new information. LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna ...

Gliese 229B, the first known brown dwarf star, was first observed in 1995. Brown dwarfs, or "brown dwarves," if you're into J.R.R. Tolkien, are substellar objects with higher mass than the largest ...

This was documented in two new studies using telescopes in Chile and Hawaii. These two brown dwarfs are gravitationally locked to each other in what is called a binary system, an arrangement ...

Now, a Caltech-led international team of astronomers has at last solved that mystery: The brown dwarf is actually a pair of tight-knit brown dwarfs, weighing about 38 and 34 times the mass of ...

A well-studied cosmic object has stunned astronomers. The "failed star" Gliese 229B has been revealed to be two so-called "brown dwarfs" that are closely orbiting each other rather than just one.

Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars because they’re lighter than stars, but heavier than gas giant planets. This object appeared too dim for its mass. Astronomers collected light and ...