Deep in space, an ancient brown dwarf nicknamed "The Accident" has revealed the first-ever detection of a molecule that ...

A study of the "failed star" brown dwarf known as "The Accident," conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope, may reveal a ...

Astronomers utilized data from the Gemini South telescope in Chile and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) from NASA to detect silane (SiH₄) in the atmosphere of "The Accident." This simple molecule ...

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The system, named UPM J1040−3551 AabBab, is located about 82 light-years from Earth. The two pairs—the brown dwarfs and the bright stars, identified as red dwarfs —are separated by 1,656 astronomical ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed a young brown dwarf known as Cha Hα 1. As a result, they found that the disk around this brown dwarf is hydrocarbon-rich. The ...

Dark dwarfs may sound like fiction (specifically, a new concept coined by Amazon's series The Rings of Power), but a team led ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A celestial object discovered decades ago is actually twins orbiting each other, a new study confirms. Scientists have puzzled over the object known as Gliese 229B, the first known ...

Astronomers have released a stunning new image captured with the James Webb Space Telescope, but this view of NGC 602 is more than a pretty picture. It also depicts the home of the first known ...

Imagine, in that distant galaxy, this system resembles a microscopic cosmic dance floor. In the inner layer, two red dwarfs with temperatures around 2900°C are closely orbiting each other, resembling ...

Exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b’s is an unusual polar orbit of a pair of brown dwarfs. Credit: ESO Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin Wallner. Editing: Angelos Tsaousis. Web and technical support: ...

"This is the first quadruple system ever discovered with a pair of T-type brown dwarfs orbiting two stars," team member MariCruz Gálvez-Ortiz of the Center for Astrobiology in Spain said. "The ...