Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in the universe.

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a ...

According to the paper, TOI-4776 b is the size of Jupiter but about 32 times more massive than the solar system's biggest planet. The brown dwarf orbits its star every 10.41 days, at a distance of ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud ...

NEW ORLEANS — When astronomer Jackie Faherty peered into space using information from the James Webb Space Telescope, there was something she couldn't take her eyes off of. Brown dwarf W1935, a ...

It also spun very quickly, despite being roughly the same size as Jupiter ... mysterious mass could be something else entirely. Brown dwarfs, otherwise known as failed stars, are the result ...