Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lurking in the southwestern corner of Aquarius the Water-bearer, globular cluster M72 doesn't stand out. At magnitude 9.4, it ...

How do stars form and evolve inside globular clusters? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of researchers conducted a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope's evidence of an "intermediate-sized" black hole about 6000 light-years away in the closest ...

This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a sparkling collection of thousands of stars. One formation commonly seen within galaxies is called a globular cluster, in which thousands of ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has identified thousands of more than 5 billion years old globular clusters in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. One of the results of these discoveries led ...

Analysis of Hubble observations of the massive globular cluster NGC 2808 provides evidence that it has three generations of stars that formed early in the cluster’s life. This is a major upset for ...

Globular clusters are ancient, spherical groups of stars that are often as old as the galaxies they orbit. The stars in a globular cluster orbit the center of mass of the cluster, and the angular ...

Globular clusters are the fossils of the astronomical world. We know they are very old, having formed shortly after the Big Bang. Furthermore, they must be pretty robust, since many have survived ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

In a galaxy not so far away, astronomers have located a surprising source of a mysterious, rapid radio signal. The signal, a repeating fast radio burst, or FRB, was observed over several months in ...

How would you like to see about a million stars, all crammed together in a tight ball in our Rochester night sky? Well you can do just that. The Great Hercules star cluster is one of the true ...