Dark dwarfs could be lurking out in the cosmos, according to a new study. These hypothetical, effectively eternal bodies would be powered by dark matter annihilation, and though dim, there is a way we ...

Astronomers have discovered a batch of nine new brown dwarfs, also known as "failed stars," including the two smallest examples of these curious celestial objects ever seen. The new find could help ...

That’s why scientists designed an instrument called coronagraph in the early 1930s. Coronagraph, as NASA describes, is inspired by solar eclipse, where the disk of the Moon overshadows the light of ...

The Subaru Telescope has notched its first major discoveries with a one-two punch that captures both ends of the planetary spectrum, a massive exoplanet and a so-called failed star. Together, these ...

An orange, striated sphere hangs in space with stars behind it with a line from it drawn to a box that contains a space-filling model of phosphine where phosphorus is orange and hydrogen is white.

An illustration of the Wolf 1130ABC triple system, which is composed of a red dwarf star (left), a white dwarf (center) and the brown dwarf where phosphine was detected (right). Adam Burgasser For the ...

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Ammonite was discovered using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, with follow-up confirmation from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Its orbit and size officially qualify it as a distant dwarf planet.

Theorists were talking about them as early as the 1960’s, but the first confirmed observation of a brown dwarf, an object that’s more than a planet but not quite a star, didn’t come until 1994. Since ...