The mystery of the universe’s “little red dots” is becoming a little clearer thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope.

JWST little red dots mystery advances: a gravitationally lensed object called GLIMPSE-17775 yielded the deepest spectrum ever ...

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 ...

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 ...

Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstadt processed a JunoCam image that reveals tiny moon Amalthea in front of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Mars is a famously red object in our solar system, but it’s not the ...

Far back in cosmic time, one small red object is refusing to behave. Abell 2744–QSO1 appears just 700 million years after the Big Bang, an era when astronomers expect to find young galaxies still ...