A dwarf evergreen shrub with an almost prostrate habit, forming dense mounds of foliage to 30cm high. Leaves are up 1cm long, ovate, glossy and dark green above, brown and densely scaly beneath.

A prostrate, dwarf evergreen shrub growing to 40cm high and 1m wide. The glossy, dark green leaves may turn bronze in winter whilst the young leaves have a reddish colour. Pale yellow, funnel-shaped ...

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 ...