Phosphine has caused quite a stir in the astronomical world lately. That was largely due to its (still hotly debated) detection in the atmosphere of Venus. While the only known way for phosphine to be ...

An odd star that has confused researchers for decades now makes sense – it turns out not to be a single star but two companions. “It used to be that this brown dwarf didn’t make any sense. We worried ...

WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - The weather report is in for the two brown dwarfs - celestial bodies bigger than a planet but smaller than a star - closest to us. It is inclement, to put it mildly: ...

Theorists were talking about them as early as the 1960’s, but the first confirmed observation of a brown dwarf, an object that’s more than a planet but not quite a star, didn’t come until 1994. Since ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that stoked controversy following claims that it had been detected on Venus and ...

We sought to test whether Gliese 229 B is a brown dwarf binary. To evade astronomers’ notice for 30 years, the two brown dwarfs would need to be located very close to each other, much closer than ...

Coarse clouds of hot sand blow in the powerful winds of these two failed stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The James Webb ...

With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered two highly unusual brown dwarfs, balls of gas that are not massive enough to power themselves the way stars do. Participants in the ...

"We therefore caution against the use of phosphine as a biosignature until these discrepancies are resolved." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...