she's thrilled anew - because she and her team again witnessed a novel phenomenon - two brown dwarfs closely orbiting each ...

Brown dwarfs are cosmic objects that blur the distinct boundaries between planets and stars. They typically form under ...

Brown dwarf—An astronomical object with mass in the range between a planet and a star (greater than 1.3 percent and less than 8 percent the mass of the sun). Brown dwarfs have a brief phase of ...

The system consists of a low-mass object – about 60 times the mass of Jupiter – in an extremely close 78-minute orbit around a white dwarf (the remnant of a star like our Sun). Due to their close ...

The sun’s transformation could push planets ... with an Earth-sized planet in a distant orbit around a white dwarf, along with a brown dwarf 17 times the mass of Jupiter. This discovery aligns ...