Creeping thyme ( Thymus spp.) is a fast-growing herbaceous perennial in the mint family. The low-growing plant, also called Breckland thyme or elfin thyme, produces small blooms in shades of pink, ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

In photos The details in this photograph include the airglow of the atmosphere dividing Earth from space — yellow-green at an altitude of 75 miles and a faint reddish hue 250 miles above the ...

Enter Fire Ball Seedless, a new cultivar that is seedless, sterile and, most importantly, non-invasive. Developed by the ...

Growing delicious cherries doesn't have to be complicated. Explore 16 cherry tree varieties that are easy to plant and ...

For the fourth year in a row, Ulster final served up a draw as Donegal and Armagh stool tall all the way to the last second.

T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system about 3,000 light years away, is usually far too dim to see with the naked eye.

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...

HD 219134 is an orange dwarf 21 light-years from Earth, much cooler and smaller than the Sun, and even more than the usual ...

The Ursa Minor Dwarf is a small galaxy, a loose aggregation of stars, and a satellite of the Milky Way. Its gravitational ...