Brown dwarfs are curious celestial bodies that appear to straddle the mass divide between stars and planets. Often referred to as "failed stars," brown dwarfs form in isolation from a collapsing ...

bigger than a planet, and smaller than a star. A category of its own, it’s one of the strangest objects in the universe. Brown dwarfs typically are defined to have masses anywhere from 12 times the ...

The universe is full of surprises—like planets so massive they outsize some stars. Explore the fascinating size comparisons that challenge the norm! Bankrupt retail chain liquidating after ...

Pluto's moon: NASA's New Horizons captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon just before the spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015. Thanks For Reading!

Using data from NASA's now-defunct Dawn spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres, the second wettest body in the solar system after Earth, could have an interior reserve ...

Formerly the ninth planet in our solar system, Pluto was demoted in 2006 to a “dwarf planet ... “Pluto is dead,” Mike Brown, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology ...

The minimum distance for a planet to keep a satellite in orbit is called the Hill sphere radius. The Hill sphere radius is based on the mass of both the larger object and the smaller object.

The researchers conducted the simulations on two populations of CBPs and exomoons: Population 1, which had an unlimited planetary radius ... planets as well as planetary mass objects that float ...

JAYLEN BROWN’S MOTHER’S HOME IN WELLESLEY WAS TARGETED SUNDAY NIGHT. THE THIEVES ALLEGEDLY THOUGHT THEY WERE GETTING INTO HIS HOUSE. THEY’RE BELIEVED TO BE PART OF A LARGER CRIMINAL RING.