"This information will help us fill in the gaps in our knowledge of how brown dwarfs form and their relationship to stars and planets." ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that planet-forming disks in the Orion nebula actually surround "failed stars," or brown dwarfs. This is the first confirmation that ...

Nature loves to break the neat little boxes we use to classify stuff. In astronomy, one of these box breakers is brown dwarfs. These objects have both stellar and planetary qualities, existing on the ...

Mars’ features are starting to become visible, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and the Trifid Nebula glows in the sky ...

Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the ability to look backward in time. Since starlight takes time to reach us, ...

Oct. 30, 2024 — New research in our Milky Way has revealed a neutron star that rotates around its axis at an extremely high speed. It spins 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest ...

Happy Diwali 2024: As people across the world light up their homes for Diwali, NASA joined the celebrations with a breathtaking image of one of the Milky Way's most spectacular star-forming regions, ...

As we enter the penultimate month of 2024, NASA has shared some spectacular images from across the universe and closer to ...

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop. Fittingly ...

Some of the planets and star systems are based on real-life locations in space. The most obvious example of this is the Alpha Centauri system, based on the real-life star, and the first star ...

Our guide for viewing the planets tells you when is the best time to see them during the month ahead as well as other skywatching sights to look out for. Throughout November, slowly but surely ...