The surface features of brown dwarfs - objects midway in mass between planets and stars - can't be seen. But researchers have found a way to reveal Jupiter-like stripes and bands in the atmosphere of the closest brown dwarf, Luhman 16B.

Here are some of the space missions to keep an eye out for in 2021.

A close look at the "stellar stream" known as Theia 456 finds it contains contains 468 stars born at the same time.

Astronomers have a new measurement for the distance of quasar J0313-1806, making it the new record-holder for the most distant quasar known. We're seeing it just 670 million years after the Big Bang, or more than 13 billion light-years away.

Space'sX CRS-21 Cargo Dragon returned to Earth from the ISS today, January 13, 2021, splashing down off the coast of Florida for the first time ever. The ship also succeeded in the first-ever autonomous undocking.

New work agrees with older research suggesting the oldest light in the universe - from the most distant galaxy yet known - started its journey toward us 13.77 billion years ago.

Astronomers have obtained one of the best images yet of a brown dwarf, an object in a mass range midway between stars and planets. This brown dwarf - called HD 33632 Ab - lies 86 light-years from our sun.

Joe Biden is the United States presidential election winner, but his plans for NASA remain unclear. And while citizens digest the election results, the space industry is left wondering what comes next.

See a whole year of sun images, an image a day for 2020, taken by ESA's Proba-2 satellite.

A new study from Northwestern University shows that solar flares - space weather - might not always be as dangerous for life on exoplanets as typically thought. In fact, it might even help astronomers discover alien life on distant worlds.