NASA astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in a nearby galaxy, the existence of failed stars that could hold the ...

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

The telescope went looking for relatively warm and bright young brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, whose dense dust and gas proved no match for its infrared detectors. Related: 42 jaw-dropping ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation on the hunt for "failed star" brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are stellar ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Two new brown dwarfs, TOI-4776 b and TOI-5422 b, have been discovered using TESS. TOI-4776 b is about 32 times the mass of Jupiter, orbits an F-type star every ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been hunting for brown dwarfs for decades. Previously, Hubble identified possible candidates in a region of the Flame Nebula called the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.