Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

A globular cluster near the heart of the Milky Way is gradually dissolving, according to a new study published on arXiv, ...

Globular star clusters are extraordinary in almost every way. They’re densely packed, holding a million stars in a ball only about 100 light-years across on average. They’re old, dating back almost to ...

Using the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), astronomers have observed a nearby galactic globular cluster known as NGC 6569.

Searching for ET? Check out one of the Milky Way's 150 or so globular star clusters. That's where you'll find the sort of quiet, well-established stellar neighborhoods that might provide favorable ...

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) department presented new research in which they assert that globular clusters are “extraordinarily good places to look for space-faring ...

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Densely packed groups of stars may make excellent cradles for complex space-traveling life to evolve. Despite studies that claim these environments, known as globular clusters, may ...

The word globule isn’t the most appealing term. Maybe this is why globular clusters don’t get as much press as they deserve. These dense collections of ancient stars numbering in the tens of thousands ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the globular cluster Fornax 2 in the dwarf galaxy Fornax. New observations of this cluster and three others in the galaxy show that they are very ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is 30 years old, and in its long career it’s photographed many of the 150 “globular clusters” that surround the Milky Way galaxy—like its latest photo, this week, of NGC ...

BOSTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) --Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics say globular clusters -- large, dense spheres of stars -- are the galactic regions most likely to harbor ...

Globular star clusters are extraordinary in almost every way. They're densely packed, holding a million stars in a ball only about 100 light-years across on average. They're old, dating back almost to ...