A dwarf planet hiding right in the middle of our solar system could be a surprising source of frozen water, astronomers ...
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 ...
Research indicates that Ceres, initially believed to be rocky, is predominantly icy, challenging earlier views. The findings ...
Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, since its discovery by Caltech ...
WASHINGTON >> 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. But it turns out ...
Astronomers resolve longstanding mystery of Gliese 229B's dimness, despite its considerable mass. A Caltech-led team ...
Scientists have been observing a brown dwarf for decades, and now they have discovered that it is actually two dwarfs ...
While some scientists are using the James Webb Space Telescope, the leading observatory in the sky run by NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, to study the planets' chemical compositions, ...
The first “failed star” ever discovered has been a weird outlier since it was discovered 20 years ago. New observations show ...
Scientists have puzzled over the object known as Gliese 229B, the first known brown dwarf discovered 30 years ago. Brown ...
The astronomers discovered that Gliese 229B wasn't a single object but a pair of brown dwarfs, orbiting each other closely.