Elusive planets may be lurking around the edges of our solar neighbourhood, and astronomers from NASA and UC Berkeley want the public’s help to hunt them down

Elusive planets may be lurking around the edges of our solar neighbourhood, and astronomers from NASA and UC Berkeley want the public’s help to hunt them down
The objects, known as brown dwarfs, hold promise for helping us understand both stellar evolution and planet formation
One of the youngest and brightest free-floating, planet-like objects ever discovered has been found in the solar neighbourhood