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 ...

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 ...

Tiny red objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are offering scientists new insights into the origins of galaxies in the universe—and may represent an entirely new class of ...

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 ...

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 ...