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NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a mysterious object that's freely floating through interstellar space.

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James Webb Spots Mysterious Object Crossing Space Between Stars

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have captured a object that's traveling so fast — one million miles per hour — that it's projected to leave the Milky Way Galaxy.

Amateur Astronomers Spot an Object Hurtling by at 1 Million MPH

By Sharon Adarlo

A pair of stars, one red dwarf, one brown dwarf, both of notable sizes small and large, have one of the tightest orbits ever spotted.

Two Tiny Stars Are Orbiting Each Other So Closely, the Entire System Could Fit In the Sun

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have discovered the coolest star ever found to emit radio waves. It's a brown dwarf, and it's not even as hot as a lighter flame.

Scientists Discover Star Cooler Than Cigarette Lighter Flame

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

For the first time ever, a dust storm has been observed outside of our Solar System — and it was the James Webb Space Telescope that made the discovery.

James Webb Space Telescope

The Webb Telescope Is So Powerful, It Spotted a Dust Storm on a Planet in a Different Star System

By Noor Al-Sibai

"The Accident," a bizarre and likely ancient brown dwarf, hints at an entirely new class of celestial objects hiding in plain sight within the Milky Way.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Extremely Strange Deep Space Object

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered a new brown dwarf with a radio telescope, revealing a new way to find celestial bodies too cold to pick up in infrared.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover a “Failed Star” Too Cold to Show up in Normal Scans

By Dan Robitzski

An army of 100,000 volunteers have identifed almost 100 of a new class of frigid brown dwarf floating near our solar system.

Science & Energy

An Army of Citizen Scientists Found Nearly 100 Nearby Brown Dwarfs

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered bizarre stripes of storm clouds blanketing a brown dwarf "star" with an old technique that's relevant again thanks to new tech.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Brown Dwarf Covered in Stripes

By Dan Robitzski

Strange Object in the Solar Neighborhood Has Clouds of Water

Strange Object in the Solar Neighborhood Has Clouds of Water

By Arra Dianne Hifarva

A Solar System with Three Earths? Astronomers Find a Trio of Potentially Habitable Worlds

A Solar System with Three Earths? Astronomers Find a Trio of Potentially Habitable Worlds

By Todd Jaquith