A compact shrub up to 1m high, with deciduous, lance-shaped, grey-green leaves, and panicles of fragrant, soft lilac flowers from midsummer to early autumn; the Lo and Behold series do not set fertile ...

'Île de France' is a deciduous, bushy shrub, to 3.5m tall and wide, with arching branches and lance-shaped leaves. Long racemes of deep violet-purple flowers with yellow-orange throats are borne from ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan In six billion years the sun ...

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf ...

It comes in at around 1.9 times the mass of Earth, orbiting its star at around twice Earth's distance from the Sun… but that star is a white dwarf, which means any life that might have been on the ...

The dwarf planet Ceres hosts a frozen ocean that is almost pure water ice at its surface and becomes ‘dirtier’ with depth, modelling suggests 1. The work reconciles conflicting evidence ...

Soon enough, you organise a major expedition back to the island. Cyprus wasn’t the only Mediterranean island with dwarf wildlife. In fact, Crete, Malta, Sicily, Sardinia and many other islands ...

Scientists behind the research think this stellar corpse is actually a monster-sized white dwarf. The discovery raises the question of how the binary's "living" star has managed to survive in ...

Scientists have unravelled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque landscape on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before palaeolithic ...

Cyprus only had two species of megafauna present during the Late Pleistocene—the 500-kg dwarf elephant (Palaeoloxodon cypriotes), and the 130-kg dwarf hippo (Phanourios minor), but both species ...