Over the past 200 years, astronomers have cataloged over a million asteroids in the solar system's main belt, down to the ...

The discovery of the tiniest brown dwarf we have ever discovered is exciting because ... new tiny brown dwarf while searching for the smallest stars, Kevin Luhamn, lead author of a new study ...

In images originally intended to study the TRAPPIST-1 star system ... marking the smallest main-belt asteroids ever detected. “We thought we would just detect a few new objects, but we detected ...

By reverse-engineering James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) exoplanet data, a team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny asteroids — including the smallest ever seen in the main belt between ...

These asteroids, ranging from the size of a bus to a stadium, are the smallest ever detected in this region ... of Earth-sized planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1, some of which are in ...