The Johnston family members are all 4-feet tall or shorter. — -- The Johnstons are not your typical American family: parents Trent and Amber, along with their five children, are all 4-feet tall ...

The Johnston family, from Barnesville, Ga., is extreme in many ways. Standing no more than four feet tall, they call themselves "the real life seven dwarfs." They are the largest family of ...

In 1975, Jill Tarter, then at NASA’s Ames Research Center, coined the term “brown dwarf.” Before that time, astronomers hypothesized the existence of so-called black dwarfs, dark objects that were ...

Meet the brown dwarf: bigger than a planet, and smaller than a star. A category of its own, it’s one of the strangest objects in the universe. Brown dwarfs typically are defined to have masses ...

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A first ever detection of a coronal mass ejection from a small red dwarf could have big consequences for life on any nearby ...

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, host of "Ask a Spaceman" and "Space Radio," and author of "Your Place in the Universe" (Prometheus Books, 2018). Sutter contributed ...