Dubbed WISE J085510.83-071442.5, our newfound neighbor is now the record-holder for the coldest brown dwarf, with a temperature between minus 54 and 9 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 48 to minus 13 ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

Astronomers working to locate Earth’s nearest stellar neighbors have uncovered the closest known brown dwarf. Cataloged as DEN 0255–4700, the object lies 16.2 light-years away in Eridanus and ...

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, an international team of researchers discovered a brown dwarf belonging to the 24th closest stellar system to the Sun.

Now a Russian-American team has added to the canon, finding a tiny and isolated dwarf galaxy almost 7 million light years away. The new galaxy, named KKs3 is located in the southern sky in the ...

However, KKs 3 is not completely typical of a spheroidal dwarf. It’s also isolated, having not interacted with its neighbors in a very long time, which puts it in the very rare category of ...

The dwarf planet Ceres is located in the asteroid belt but looks nothing like its neighbors. In a new paper, scientists propose an explanation for the conundrum. When you purchase through links on ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 1532, also known as Haley’s Coronet, is caught in a lopsided tug-of-war with its smaller neighbor, the dwarf galaxy NGC 1531. The image — taken by the US Department of ...

Astronomers haven’t found planets around our Sun’s nearest neighbor, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. But there’s good reason to keep looking. Most exoplanets orbit red dwarfs — the most ...