In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

If the molecular cloud retains its filamentary shape, it is more likely to break up along its long "string" and form many stars like our Sun, a low-mass star with planetary systems. On the other ...