Researchers named the orange-brown dwarf frog after the Latin words for orange and brown, “aurantium” and “fuscus,” they said. The frog is only known from the area where it was found.

I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. A local orange dwarf star has a 90 percent probability of passing within the orbit of our outer solar system’s Oort Cloud ...

The action soon sparked interest and resulted in more than a thousand dwarf graffiti throughout major Polish cities, eventually leading to the arrest of several members. Between 1985 through 1990, the ...

"Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf, and now we know we were wrong all along about the nature of the object. It's not one but two." A well-studied cosmic object has stunned ...

A pair of recently uncovered brown dwarf twins, named Gliese 229ba and Gliese 229bb ... dwarfs tightly orbiting around each other every 12 days (as indicated by the orange and blue orbital lines), ...

This encouraged them to examine the spectrum of light that traveled through the GJ 9827 d's atmosphere as it passed by the orange dwarf star it orbits. The spectroscopy data the team captured ...

This artwork highlights a pair of recently uncovered brown dwarf twins, named Gliese 229Ba ... each other every 12 days (as indicated by the orange and blue orbital lines), with a separation ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (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.

This artwork highlights a pair of recently uncovered brown dwarf twins, named Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb. Gliese 229B, discovered in 1995, was the first-ever confirmed brown dwarf, but until ...

Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar Observatory in 1995. But a pressing ...