brown dwarfs

Stars that fail at being stars are not just posers

Not everyone can be a star.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

4 months ago

Dozens of rogue planets found in a nearby cosmic nursery

Starless planets wander the galaxy in the dark.

By Phil Plait | 

6 months ago

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

By Phil Plait | 

10 months ago

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

By Phil Plait | 

11 months ago

Dark matter might heat exoplanets enough to make them glow

By Phil Plait | 

1 year ago

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

By Phil Plait | 

1 year ago

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

By Phil Plait | 

1 year ago

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

By Phil Plait | 

2 years ago

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

By Phil Plait | 

2 years ago

A very dense oasis in the brown dwarf desert

By Phil Plait | 

2 years ago