In new research published in Science, a team of astronomers report the detection of a surprising substance in a brown dwarf known as Wolf 1130C: a chemical called phosphine, which has been the focus ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University ...

In a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), a team of astronomers identified a hierarchical system where a pair of cold brown dwarfs orbits a pair of young ...

In 2017 Aaron Meisner, founded the Backyard Worlds citizen science project to search for and map the little known population of brown dwarf stars in our stellar neighborhood. These bodies are between ...

"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 ...

"The results provide a rare, detailed look at how planet-forming chemistry operates in the extreme environments around brown dwarfs, potentially offering clues to the diversity of worlds beyond our ...

Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University in China, and his colleagues were combing through catalogs of stars in search of cold brown dwarfs, interstellar objects that fall somewhere between ...