Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope study faint brown dwarfs in the RCW 36 nebula to understand substellar populations and the initial mass function in a young massive cluster.

There's a whole slew of objects that astronomers aren't sure whether to classify as "failed stars" or "overgrown planets." ...

An artist’s impression of the stellar dimming event caused by a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter with massive rings (foreground) forming an opaque “saucer” through which some light from the star ...

Astronomers have found evidence for a striped pattern of clouds on the brown dwarf Luhman 16A, illustrated here. The red object in the background is Luhman 16B, the partner brown dwarf to Luhman 16A.