Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Globular clusters like this one, Omega Centauri, are very dense groupings of up to a million stars ... [+] in a sphere ...

With ages that can reach 12–13 billion years (thus dating back to the dawn of the cosmos), globular clusters are among the first systems to form in the universe. They represent a typical ...

Using the Gemini-South telescope, astronomers have performed high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy of stars in a Galactic globular cluster known as Gran 5. They found that this cluster ...

Neanderthals had a long, low skull (compared to the more globular skull of modern humans) with a characteristic prominent brow ridge above their eyes. Their face was also distinctive. The central part ...

The transmission consisted of a simple, pictorial message, aimed at our putative cosmic companions in the globular star cluster M13. This cluster is roughly 21,000 light-years from us, near the edge ...