Brown dwarfs
Articles about the substellar bodies known as brown dwarfs
What's the smallest a star can be? Webb has brought astronomers closer to the answer
Astronomers may have found the smallest 'failed star' yet discovered.
The Milky Way is home to 100 billion 'failed stars'
Our Galaxy could contain 100 billion brown dwarfs, a much higher number than scientists initially thought, in research that could change what we know about star clusters.
Exoplanet caught masquerading as brown dwarf
What was previously thought to be a brown dwarf has been discovered to be an exoplanet lying on the cusp between the two. The exoplanet could help in the study of exoplanet atmospheres.
Aurora discovered over brown dwarf
The discovery of aurora on a low-mass star 18 lightyears from Earth is teaching scientists more about the outer atmospheres of exoplanets.
Exoplanet Excursions: May 2014
Neither planet nor star, Jon’s next stop sits in the murky borderlands of cosmic classification.
Drifting through the Galaxy like a dirty faced Dickensian orphan trudging up a foggy, cobbled road, the wandering rogue world I encountered on my last voyage – Obsidiana – evoked an odd feeling of pity.