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 ...

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 ...

Take some cosmic dust and gas, then add billions and billions of planets and a whole lot of stars to the mix. Spice it all up ...

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 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 ...

The universe is more than a smattering of distant stars—it’s also chock-full of other worlds. But if the universe is so crowded, where is the alien life? While there are many theories addressing this ...

Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...