Gliese 229B is located 19 light-years away where it orbits a red dwarf called Gliese 229. In 1995, it became the first-known brown dwarf, introducing astronomers to failed stars. Now, fittingly ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...

Astronomers found signs of auroral activity on an isolated brown dwarf after investigating the celestial objects using the James Webb Space Telescope.

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

"This is the most exciting and fascinating discovery in substellar astrophysics in decades," an astrophysicist said.

Within GRAVITY’s combined observations, Xuan’s team discovered that Gliese 229 B was not a single object, but a pair of brown ...

They are located 19 light-years from our solar system ... to orbit as close to each other as this twosome. Brown dwarfs are neither a star nor a planet, but something in between.

The dividing line between stars and planets is that stars have enough mass to fuse hydrogen into helium to produce their own ...