Astronomers find two failed stars wandering the universe together
Astronomers have discovered an exotic binary system consisting of two brown dwarfs orbiting each other.
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Researchers discover a planet so big it might not be a planet after all
Too big for a planet, too small for a star.
TRAPPIST-1, the dwarf star with seven Earth-sized planets, is older than our solar system
This could be both good and bad for potential extraterrestrial life.
Astronomers find water clouds on brown dwarf
Researchers working with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii have made a stunning discovery: they found evidence of water clouds around ...
Lonely planet found in a family of stars
NASA astronauts have discovered a lonely planetary-like mass floating on its own, without a solar system. ...
Scientists find a tiny star with a huge storm — just like Jupiter’s
While the windy and overcast weather of a stormy day isn't surprising on telluric planets, it's not something most of ...
70,000 Years Ago, a Rogue Star Passed Through Our Solar System
Too close for comfort - a team of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa concluded that a ...
A strange, lonely planet found without a star
An international discovered a young, exotic, rogue planet - PSO J318.5-22, is just 80 light-years away from Earth and has ...
Black-hole wakes up from slumber and feasts on super-Jupiter planet
Artist illustration of the supermassive black hole consuming on a substellar object. (C) ESA In an ...
First remote reconnaissance of another solar systems reveals unlike “any other known object in our Universe”
Researchers have for the first time conducted a remote reconnaissance of a distant planetary system with a new telescope imaging ...
Closest rogue planet discovered is just 100 light-years away
Like in a scene from a Sci-fi novel, about 100 light years away, somewhere in the constellation Doradus, a planet ...
NASA discovers coolest stars ever
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has offered data about the coolest stars ever found until now, stars which are ...
Coldest star so far found – not hotter than a cup of coffee
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