A rare quadruple star system that is the first of its kind to be discovered by astronomers could help better understand so-called "failed stars" or brown dwarfs. These celestial bodies get their ...

Phosphine has caused quite a stir in the astronomical world lately. That was largely due to its (still hotly debated) detection in the atmosphere of Venus. While the only known way for phosphine to be ...

Astronomers have discovered a fascinating new object orbiting a small red star not far from Earth — a brown dwarf with powerful storms and cloudy weather patterns. The discovery, made with the help of ...

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 ...

In our Milky Way galaxy, the most common type of star is the small, cool star known as an M dwarf, or red dwarf. They make up more than half of all the stars in our galaxy. Because M dwarfs are ...

Brown dwarfs: too small to be stars, too big to be planets. Only discovered in the 1990s, these in-between cosmic objects aren’t big enough to burn as hot and bright as a true star, instead usually ...

"The discovery provides a unique cosmic laboratory for studying these mysterious objects." A rare quadruple star system that is the first of its kind to be discovered by astronomers could help better ...