Why has silicon, one of the most common elements in the universe, gone largely undetected in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn, and gas planets like them orbiting other stars? A new study using ...

Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon molecule missing from Jupiter and Saturn’s skies. Its ancient, oxygen-poor ...

"Sometimes it's the extreme objects that help us understand what's happening in the average ones." Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have investigated a "failed star," or brown ...