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

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

The first "failed star" was discovered in 1995, but it was far too dim. The explanation is now astonishingly simple – and ...

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

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

Scientists confirm Gliese 229B is a pair of brown dwarfs, not one Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb complete their orbits in 12 ...

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

Scientists say a celestial object discovered decades ago is actually twins orbiting each other. The discovery was published ...

After a breakthrough discovery in 1995, scientists have made the ‘most exciting and fascinating discovery in substellar ...

Gliese 229B is located 19 light-years away where it orbits a red dwarf called Gliese 229. In 1995, it became the first-known brown dwarf, introducing astronomers to failed stars. Now, fittingly ...