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 ...

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 ...

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.

For years, scientists were puzzled by tiny glowing red points seen in the deepest images from the James Webb Space Telescope, known as the “little red dots.” At first, no one knew what they were, and ...

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Mysterious objects or "little red dots" seen in the early universe by the JWST. | Credit: JWST/NIRSpec. Forget "little green men" — it is "little red dots" in the infant universe that caught the eye ...

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 ...