A new X-ray look at the mesmerizing Helix Nebula reveals an alleged planet killer: a white dwarf that might be the source of ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a ...

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

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

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

Stars and brown dwarfs form from large clouds of material ... This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on the left ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from ... to both stars and planets. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been on the hunt for these brown dwarfs for decades.

This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light view from NASA's Hubble ... formation on the hunt for "failed star" brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are hotter and brighter ...

But JWST is sensitive to infrared light, which it sees as ... That's smaller than scientists expected. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been hunting for brown dwarfs for decades.