In the realm of science fiction, Dyson spheres and ringworlds have been staples for decades. But it is well known that the ...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...

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

The search turned up free-floating objects roughly two to three times the mass of Jupiter. By "free-floating," astronomers mean objects that aren't orbiting a parent star. These could be stellar ...

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

Like an ambiguous game of telephone, messages get lost in translation when Mercury squares Jupiter, and no one’s quite sure what’s going on! Read between the lines, or swim in a sea of confusion!

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

My good friend Jim McCabe publishes a weekly newsletter called Power Fades, which contains his musings about golf. He has ...

Read between the lines, or swim in a sea of confusion! On Feb. 20, Mercury in Pisces will square Jupiter in Gemini, creating a cosmic clash between two very different energies — Mercury wants ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

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 ...