Astronomers have made a surprising discovery about Gliese 229B, a well-known brown dwarf first identified nearly 30 years ago ...

In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big ...

"Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf, and now we know we were wrong all along about the nature of the ...

"This is the most exciting and fascinating discovery in substellar astrophysics in decades," an astrophysicist said.

Researchers have discovered that Gliese 229B is actually a binary system of two brown dwarfs, Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb.

Peppered throughout the universe are balls of gas that never got promoted to stardom. In a strange twist, evidence has just ...

In 1995, Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar Observatory first observed what appeared to be a brown dwarf orbiting ...

Astronomers resolve longstanding mystery of Gliese 229B's dimness, despite its considerable mass. A Caltech-led team ...

Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, since its discovery by Caltech ...

Scientists have been observing a brown dwarf for decades, and now they have discovered that it is actually two dwarfs ...

Astronomers solve decades-long mystery of famous brown dwarf - After a breakthrough discovery in 1995, scientists have made ...