Time lapse of growing a sunflower seed to blooming. The dwarf sunspot variety was chosen and sown into soil. The seed quickly sprouted and turned into a young plant. Flower bud appeared around the ...

Scientists found a “dwarf”-like creature with “long” fingers lurking near a temple in Thailand and discovered a new species, a study said. Google Street View ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf star, offering the clearest evidence yet that icy, life-delivering objects ...

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

Red Dwarf co-creator Doug Naylor has said that UKTV scrapped a new episode of the beloved sci-fi comedy last year. He added: "The cast were all on board and I was told to start writing. Several months ...

Dwarf planet Ceres now appears less like a dead rock and more like a world that may have briefly brimmed with potential for life Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ...

Ammonite was discovered using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, with follow-up confirmation from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Its orbit and size officially qualify it as a distant dwarf planet.

Deep in the constellation Canes Venatici, also called the Hunting Dogs, lies the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449. It's part of the M94 galaxy group, near a group of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs. In ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory about the possibility of a giant ninth planet. The dwarf planet's existence ...

Tall sunflowers make handy natural supports for climbing vegetables and flowers, and their pollen-rich blooms entice insects to pollinate crops. However, sunflowers don’t play nicely with all edible ...

A surprising pattern of spatial distribution was discovered in dwarf galaxies, whereby diffuse ones cluster more strongly than do compact ones — opposite to the trend seen in massive galaxies. This ...