Astronomers discovered KMT-2020-BLG-0414, a faraway planet orbiting a white dwarf, which offers a glimpse into Earth's potential future in ...

Tom Bickle, an astronomy student in Southampton, discovered a hypervelocity object moving at a million miles per hour. The object, possibly...

Amateur astronomers part of NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project identified CWISE J1249, a fast-moving object exiting the Milky Way, us...

It should come as no surprise that a rogue star — some call it ‘free-range’ but that is ovoid-able — is now lurking just 20 light years awa...

Washington, Jan 12 (IANS) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the largest known population of brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn...

With a size just a sliver larger than that of Saturn, the gravitational pull at its stellar surface is about 300 times stronger than what h...

London, July 6 (IANS) Our galaxy could have 100 billion brown dwarfs or more, according to a new research by an international team of astro...

New York, June 4 (IANS) Scientists have discovered a brown dwarf -- sometimes called "failed stars" -- a little more than 100 light years a...

Washington, April 27 (IANS) Scientists have discovered an "extremely cold" new planet about the same mass as Earth, and the same distance f...

The dwarf is estimated to have formed about 10 bn years ago, measurements also suggest it has a mass equivalent to 90 times that of Jupiter.

London, March 25 (IANS) A record breaking brown dwarf -- a star too small for nuclear fusion -- with the purest composition and the highest...

Kolkata, Nov 1 (IANS) Two physicists, including one from Asia Pacific, are among five laureates of the 2017 L'Oreal-Unesco for Women in Sci...

Punjab government said that the variety PBW 725 of bread wheat has been released for cultivation in the state under irrigated timely sown c...

This is the first measurement of the rotation of a massive exoplanet using direct imaging, researchers said.

The exact source of this high-energy light is uncertain at this point but it just might be a signal of dark matter lurking at the galaxy's ...

Astronomers have discovered the first aurora outside our solar system, around a brown dwarf about 18 light years away from Earth

According to University of California, Santa Cruz, Jonathan Fortney, "it's tentative [but] "it's the first evidence for water clouds" outsi...