An ancient space object is fast, faint, and there may be billions more like it

By Phil Plait 1 month ago

First a red giant cooks its planets, then it turns them into mini-stars

By Phil Plait 3 months ago

Dark matter might heat exoplanets enough to make them glow

By Phil Plait 5 months ago

If these brown dwarfs spun much faster they'd tear themselves apart

By Phil Plait 6 months ago

A billion galaxies lurk in a 10 trillion pixel map of the sky

By Phil Plait 8 months ago

On a brown dwarf 35 light years away, a gale force wind's a-blowin'

1 year ago

A rare find: An eclipsing binary brown dwarf in a triple brown dwarf system

1 year ago

A very dense oasis in the brown dwarf desert

2 years ago

Are we overlooking a lot of nearby brown dwarfs?

3 years ago

100 billion brown dwarfs lurk in the galaxy

4 years ago