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

Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In the ...

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 ...

Astronomers offered a new hypothesis for what created pairs of objects nicknamed JuMBOs, while other scientists argue they ...

Space.com talks to artist and author Martin Vargic, who is turning exoplanets into stunning and intricate art.

Pocock, who has worked on the JWST, catalogues the science behind its most stunning images in her new book, Webb's Universe.

These giant stars send out large amounts of high-energy radiation, which can disrupt relatively fragile disks of dust and gas that are in the process of coalescing to form new planets. A team of ...

Planetary nebulae, named for their planet-like appearance in early telescopes, represent the final stage in the evolution of Sun-like stars. Various theories have been proposed to explain the ...