Since 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has been turning up hundreds of puzzling compact red objects in its deepest images ...

A faint, distant object emitting X-rays may finally clarify the nature of the enigmatic “little red dots” spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. Detected through combined data from NASA’s Chandra ...

The space rocks may have come from beyond Neptune, and potentially offer hints at the chaos of the early solar system. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Two red things are hiding in a part of the solar system ...

They’re red, they’re reasonably big, and they have no business being in the main asteroid belt, but their discovery confirms the complex conditions in place when the solar system was still forming.

Heroes are usually confined to comic books and movies, but as the saying goes, we all need one. So astronomers have turned to the deep, dark cosmos to find their heroic figure — the “Hyper Extremely ...

Not all discoveries turn out to be actual new discoveries. This was the case for the extremely red objects (EROs) found in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data. Analysis shows that they are very ...

A group of scientists has discovered two unusually red objects in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, and they may have originated from farther in the solar system. These objects — called 203 ...