NASA telescopes discover brown dwarf protoplanetary disks in the Orion ... The brown dwarf at the center of each disk is detected in the infrared image ... located 1,300 light years away. ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and analyze otherwise invisible infrared light, Webb is making observations that ...

NASA confirms the existence of TOI‑1846 b, a nearby hot super-Earth that could contain water, initially observed by NASA's ...

The JWST's infrared vision has seen deep into the stormy atmosphere of two brown dwarfs that form the third closest system to the sun.

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

Brown dwarfs are bigger than gas giants, but smaller than stars -- and they barely produce any light. The James Webb telescope made it possible to detect them, even if they're 200,000 light years ...

To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to scratch ...

Observation expands the diversity of known planetary systems. Right angle Illustration of 2M1510 showing the orbits of the two brown dwarfs (in blue) and that of the planet (in orange). (Courtesy: ESO ...

Brown dwarfs are cosmic oddballs—while too large to classify as planets, they’re also too small to truly meet the definition of a star. But at 13 to 80 times the mass of Jupiter, they exhibit ...

Astronomers have been waiting patiently for months for light from a distant explosion to reach Earth, and the wait might finally pay off, according to NASA. Scientists alerted the public last year ...

The two brown dwarfs form a binary pair called WISE 1049AB that was discovered by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) in 2013; the duo sits just 6.5 light-years away from us. They ...