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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed enigmatic rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, ...

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

Since the 1980s, a strange X-ray emission has puzzled astronomers. At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

Since they were first detected over four decades ago, unusually powerful x-ray emissions originating from the site of a dying ...

Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf star for more than 40 years. We may now ...

Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could ...

Astronomers have been recording the signal for more than four decades, but this is the first time they've nabbed its origin.

A not-so-distant white dwarf named WD 2226-210 has been on our radar since the 1980s for releasing X-rays, now we may know why ...

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 ...

The Flame Nebula, located 1,400 light-years from Earth, is a region where many stars are forming and is less than a million ...