Molecular nitrogen (N 2) could be produced as well ... This also means that these far-flung dwarf planets could contain hot ...

"Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf, and now we know we were wrong all along about the nature of the ...

Astronomers resolve longstanding mystery of Gliese 229B's dimness, despite its considerable mass. A Caltech-led team ...

The longest single-target search for radio signals from TRAPPIST-1 — a star system with seven planets just 41 light-years ...

New research from NASA and Purdue University suggest that dwarf planet Ceres is chock full of water ice that once flowed as a ...

While the dream of encountering intelligent beings remains distant, we might just have chanced upon a planet that mirrors our ...

Scientists say a celestial object discovered decades ago is actually twins orbiting each other. The discovery was published ...

An international team of astronomers has figured out that a famous brown dwarf is actually a pair of tight-knit brown dwarfs, weighing about 38 and 34 times the mass of Jupiter, that whip around each ...

Barnard's star is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun. At about 6 ...

A color-enhanced view of Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to Earth, high­lights its Oc­ca­tor crater. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA Pluto is the most famous dwarf planet ...