NASA's Webb telescope spotted what is likely the smallest brown dwarf ever observed. Brown dwarfs are some of the most unusual objects in the universe. They aren't a star or a planet. In theory, such ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning view of a star cluster that contains some of the smallest brown dwarfs ever identified. A brown dwarf, also sometimes known as a failed ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, which NASA calls the most powerful telescope ever built, has been astounding scientists and space enthusiasts since international agencies, including the European Space ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

It's impossible to tell for sure how many stars there are in the Universe for the simplest reason that it's impossible to see them all, let alone count them. Some estimates, based on, well, more or ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." Astronomers have discovered a collection of tiny galaxies located roughly 3 million ...

A large asteroid could be reclassified as a dwarf planet -- which could make it the smallest in the solar system -- after new research revealed it's shape, astronomers said on Monday. A large asteroid ...