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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The reddish hue of many objects in our solar system's frigid outer reaches may be evidence of ...

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 ...

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 ...

An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope as it orbits the sun in our solar system, 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: SA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The James Webb Space ...

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James Webb Space Telescope. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...