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Dwarf Cat's Desperate Pleas to the Automatic Feeder Have People Calling for 'Justice'

This feline fur baby wanted food.
Smithsonian Magazine

Is This Giant Celestial Body a Moon, a Planet or Something in Between? The Strange Object Calls Astronomical Labels Into Question

The newly found object, estimated to be roughly as massive as Jupiter, orbits a brown dwarf—a "failed star"—which in turn ...

NASA knows the sun isn't yellow, but still calls it a 'yellow' dwarf - here's why

The bright golden depictions of the sun from childhood drawings don't quite match up to the science behind its color.

Astronomers may have finally detected a moon located outside our solar system

Astronomers detected a strong 170-day signal suggesting a Jupiter-mass object orbits the brown dwarf CD-35 2722 B. The ...
Smithsonian Magazine

See the First-Ever Photographs of Cozumel’s Elusive Dwarf Fox, One of the Rarest Canids in the World

No one had seen the creatures in more than two decades, leading scientists to wonder whether they'd gone extinct. That ...
Tech Times on MSN

Brown dwarf magnetic field directly measured for first time via radio cutoff

Brown dwarf magnetic field measurement achieves a first: Dutch astronomers directly read the field strength of a methane ...

Dead stars in our cosmic backyard: Astronomers spot four white dwarfs hiding under our noses

Researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of Colorado Boulder have directly observed, for the first time, ...

The Decades-Long Search for Alien Moons Gets a Potential Breakthrough

Astronomers discovered a moon-like object orbiting a brown dwarf that's orbiting a star. Say that three times fast.
CNN

It’s an asteroid! No, it’s the new smallest dwarf planet in our solar system

A large asteroid could be reclassified as a dwarf planet – which could make it the smallest in the solar system – after new research revealed its shape, astronomers said on Monday. Nestled in the ...