The brown dwarf pair is located 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

Scientists detect the fastest brown dwarf, 2M2228, using radio waves, revealing new insights into magnetism and space weather ...

"Failed star" brown dwarfs may get a second chance to shine by colliding and merging to birth a new star.

Visible to the naked eye in the constellation Cassiopeia, the star γ Cas has puzzled astrophysicists for half a century. It ...

This artist’s impression visualises the massive star gamma-Cas and its small-but-dense white dwarf companion. Credit: ESA / Y ...

For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an ...

This week, among a lot of other important findings, we learned that emperor cichlid fish have gaze sensitivity and dislike it ...

Red Dwarf's scouse technician Dave Lister was the last human alive, a down-on-his-luck slobbish space-hero long before Peter ...

While nearly all massive galaxies possess central black holes, the presence of such black holes in dwarf galaxies remains an open question, with previous estimates identifying them in only 0.5% of ...

Dwarf Fortress is one of the most complex computer games in the history of computer games. How complex? In the game's discussion forum, one player asserts that after 120 failed games, he can finally ...

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