Sep 11, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers led by Dr Jacqueline Faherty from Carnegie Institution of Washington and American Museum of Natural History have discovered evidence of water...

Apr 28, 2014 by News Staff

U.S. astronomer using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered WISE J085510.83-071442.5 (WISE 0855-0714...

Feb 18, 2014 by News Staff

European astronomers led by Dr Federico Marocco from the University of Hertfordshire have discovered a brown dwarf with unusually red skies. Brown dwarf...

Jan 29, 2014 by News Staff

European scientists using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have learned what the weather is like on the surface of one of the objects in a binary...

Jan 22, 2014 by News Staff

U.S. astronomers have captured a direct image of a very rare T-dwarf circling the nearby Sun-like star HD 19467. This is an artist’s impression of...

Jan 9, 2014 by News Staff

An unusual stellar object named ROXs 42Bb may represent a new kind of planets or it may be a very rare planet-mass brown dwarf, according to a group of...

Dec 17, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers have detected what they think may be an exoplanet circling a brown dwarf pair called Luhman 16AB, the third-closest star system to the Sun. An...

Nov 20, 2013 by News Staff

British astronomers reporting in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (arXiv.org) have found two of the oldest brown dwarfs in...

Sep 9, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using data from NASA’s WISE mission and the Spitzer Space Telescope have found that ultra-cool Y-class brown dwarfs – the coldest...

Mar 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A newly discovered binary brown dwarf is the third-closest star system to our Solar System, and the closest system discovered since 1916. An artist’s...

Jun 8, 2012 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), an international team of scientists has discovered about 200 brown dwarfs, including a few...

May 10, 2012 by James Freeman

Astronomers have discovered a brown dwarf that is more than 99 % hydrogen and helium. Artist’s impression shows BD+01 2920B in the foreground, on the...