If you’re looking for a plant that thrives in Austin’s unpredictable climate, supports local wildlife, and even brews into a ...

Q: I have a hedge of boxwoods that are looking somewhat orange-tinted and less dense than usual. What might be causing this? Boxwood leafminer is my main suspect, and I have recently seen boxwoods ...

The dwarf yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria ‘nana’) is native along the eastern states and into Central Florida, and it is well known for its slow growth habit, easy care and tolerance to pruning. For ...

The DWARFLAB DWARF 3 is a great imaging tool for beginner astrophotographers who want to skip the traditional astrophotography camera and go straight for an affordable smart telescope. Why you can ...

Brown dwarfs: too small to be stars, too big to be planets. Only discovered in the 1990s, these in-between cosmic objects aren’t big enough to burn as hot and bright as a true star, instead usually ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the ...

Gamers fall into one of two categories: Those who have played Dwarf Fortress and those who haven’t. Within the former are another couple of subsets, those who couldn’t hack the complexity and graphics ...

An invasive pest is targeting boxwood shrubs, and it has now been detected for the first time in Virginia. Box tree moth caterpillars feed directly on the leaves of boxwood shrubs and can completely ...

The boxwood plant on the left is healthy, green and web-free. The boxwood plant on the right is dead or dying from box tree moth caterpillar damage. The invasive caterpillars feed on the foliage and ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic rarity: an ultra-massive white dwarf star resulting from a white dwarf merging with another star, rather than through the evolution of a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected gas on the distant dwarf planet, Makemake. Credit: NASA / ESA / Southwest Research Institute / A. Parker illustration Scientists have ...

While nearly all massive galaxies possess central black holes, the presence of such black holes in dwarf galaxies remains an open question, with previous estimates identifying them in only 0.5% of ...