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

Astronomers believe they've spotted the tiniest stars: brown dwarfs only a few times the size of Jupiter, lurking dimly in the darkest depths of space. Yes, Jupiter is a standard unit of mass! "For ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...

A team of astronomers has identified a rocky planet with a mass similar to Earth’s, orbiting a white dwarf star approximately ...

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

The dividing line between stars and planets is that stars have enough mass to fuse hydrogen into helium to produce their own ...

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.

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.

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

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...

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

The results suggest that 64 stellar objects within the cluster have masses ranging between 50 and 84 times that of Jupiter. Brown dwarfs typically weigh between 13 and 75 Jupiter masses ...