"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...

This world defied all expectations. Rather than a distant gas giant like Jupiter, 51 Pegasi b was a behemoth half the mass of Jupiter but orbiting astonishingly close to its star, whipping around ...

Free-floating, planetary mass objects are bodies with around 13 times the mass of Jupiter that are often found drifting through young star clusters, such as the Trapezium Cluster in Orion.

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

The mass of these objects is less than 13 times that of Jupiter. They are often observed in young star clusters like the Trapezium Cluster in Orion. While their existence is well-documented ...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...

Read between the lines, or swim in a sea of confusion! On Feb. 20, Mercury in Pisces will square Jupiter in Gemini, creating a cosmic clash between two very different energies — Mercury wants ...

The search turned up free-floating objects roughly two to three times the mass of Jupiter. By "free-floating," astronomers mean objects that aren't orbiting a parent star. These could be stellar ...