Brown dwarfs are lighter than stars, and heavier than gas giants like Jupiter. And while astronomers had measured the mass of ...

Israeli astronomers report the detection of a new Jupiter-like exoplanet using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet ...

NEW ORLEANS — When astronomer Jackie Faherty peered into space using information from the James Webb Space Telescope, there was something she couldn't take her eyes off of. Brown dwarf W1935, a ...

Gaia-4b, a giant exoplanet orbiting a small star, is the first planet confirmed using Gaia’s astrometric technique.

High-resolution spectroscopic observations of the brown dwarf HD 206893 B reveal it has a radius of about 1.11 Jupiter radii, a mass of approximately 22.7 Jupiter masses, and an effective ...

The brown dwarf, not quite a planet or a star, is Gaia-5b. Respectively, they are 244 and 134 light-years away. "This discovery is an exciting tip-of-the-iceberg for the exoplanet discoveries we ...

Recent observations, however, reveal that Gliese 229B is actually two brown dwarfs orbiting each other closely, forming a binary system. This was confirmed through studies using telescopes in ...

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Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has been dedicated to creating an accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. Using two high-precision optical telescopes, the spacecraft carefully records the ...

New research has confirmed the existence of a giant exoplanet, dubbed a “Super-Jupiter”, and a mysterious brown dwarf, which are both unexpectedly orbiting low-mass stars in an “extremely ...

Gaia-4b and 5b: Radial Velocity Confirmation of Gaia Astrometric Orbital Solutions Reveal a Massive Planet and a Brown Dwarf Orbiting Low-mass Stars. The Astronomical Journal , 2025; 169 (2): 107 ...