A mysterious object in our sky, Gliese 229 B, continues to intrigue astronomers. Recent revelations about its hidden identity ...

Astronomers ended up publishing the discovery of the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star — 51 Pegasi b — in early October that year, and the announcement of finding the brown dwarf ...

Within GRAVITY’s combined observations, Xuan’s team discovered that Gliese 229 B was not a single object, but a pair of brown ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

Check out these 8 images of galaxies, star clusters, supernovas and others captured by NASA James Webb Space Telescope in ...

"This information will help us fill in the gaps in our knowledge of how brown dwarfs form and their relationship to stars and planets." ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet - sort of a celestial tweener.

The first “failed star” ever discovered has been a weird outlier since it was found nearly 30 years ago. New observations show that it is unusually massive because it isn’t a single star after all ...

2024 — A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf ...