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

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

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

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

Free-floating, planetary mass objects are bodies with around 13 times the mass of Jupiter that are often found drifting through young star clusters, such as the Trapezium Cluster in Orion.

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The newfound objects are about 30 ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

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

Their mass can be as low as two to three times the mass of Jupiter, a gas giant over 300 times more massive than Earth. (Webb could view smaller objects, but didn't find any.) "Webb, for the first ...