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A deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub, with a low, spreading habit and angled stems. Leaves are narrowly oblong, almost linear, and deep green, sometimes turning bright red in autumn. Small, ...

A slender, narrowly-columnar evergreen shrub or small tree, up to 6m high, with sticky buds and simple, oblong, glossy dark green leaves, up to 1.5-2cm long, and glaucous below. Scented white flowers, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The planet, called KMT-2020-BLG-0414 and located 4,000 light-years from Earth, is a rocky world orbiting a white dwarf — the embering husk of a star. Our sun is expected to transform into a ...

Now, 14 years later, the tree has grown to maturity. The tree, which the team has named Sheba, is approximately 3 meters in height with green leaves on its limbs.

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 ...