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

Researchers at Monash University and Swinburne University of Technology recently ran 3D simulations of supernova explosions, to explore the possibility that the low-mass star in the J0453+1559 ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

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

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

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

Three of the low mass objects in the Flame Nebula revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) This Tweet is currently unavailable.

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...