Globular springtails don't use their legs to jump. Instead, they have an appendage called a furca that folds up underneath their abdomen and has a tiny, forked structure at its tip. When the ...

These NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images show the globular clusters Fornax 2 (above) and Fornax 3 (below) in the dwarf galaxy Fornax. New observations of these and two other clusters in the galaxy ...

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 ...