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

Now, a Caltech-led international team of astronomers has at last solved that mystery: The brown dwarf is actually a pair of tight-knit brown dwarfs, weighing about 38 and 34 times the mass of ...

An odd star that has confused researchers for decades now makes sense – it turns out not to be a single star but two companions. “It used to be that this brown dwarf didn’t make any sense.

"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 ...

Scientists have puzzled over the object known as Gliese 229B, the first known brown dwarf discovered 30 years ago. Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars because they're lighter than stars ...

The planet, which orbits a red dwarf star, is believed to be the lowest-density gas giant we have ever detected. Astronomers observed the unusual planet, which can be seen in an artist’s ...

Sure, the Hokes Bluff senior stands just 4 feet tall – she’s a dwarf – and has undergone ... shot at earning a spot on the U.S. Paralympic Team and competing as a shot putter in Rio de ...

Music streamer Tidal will have its second big layoff in a year, and it might dwarf the last one ... "So we're going to part ways with a number of folks on our team,” Dorsey told staff in a note. Block ...

A well-studied cosmic object has stunned astronomers. The "failed star" Gliese 229B has been revealed to be two so-called ...

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"Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf," team member and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) researcher Jerry W. Xuan said in a statement. "And now we know we were wrong all ...