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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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At an event last week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) officially released The Emergency Red List of Syrian Cultural Objects at Risk, which outlines the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery, unearthing a mysterious ancient “Big Red Dot” in the Cosmic Dawn. This celestial object, identified as a voracious supermassive ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose an entirely new type of cosmic structure: black hole stars. These exotic ...