Mirkwood, the homeland of Legolas from The Lord of the Rings, was once a safe and beautiful forest, so what caused its evil ...

Both the rooms feature beautiful period fireplaces, one with a cast iron wood-burning stove ... above the patio area a dwarf stone wall rises to an area of lawn which is enclosed by an original stone ...

Astronomers from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) in Australia and elsewhere have reinvestigated a planetary ...

The nearby star Gliese 229 harbours a ‘brown dwarf’ companion: an object less massive than a star but more massive than a planet. High-resolution observations reveal that it is two objects ...

Plant dwarf iris bulbs in the garden and look forward to beautiful flowers in early spring. Plus, learn how to grow dwarf irises indoors. The post Dwarf Iris Flower Growing Guide appeared first on ...

In places, it's even shrunk: one end towers just a few inches above the ground, small even for a dwarf wall. Faced with on-shore sand drifting and the prospect of over-topping waves, it’s been ...

This artwork highlights a pair of recently uncovered brown dwarf twins, named Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb. Gliese 229B, discovered in 1995, was the first-ever confirmed brown dwarf, but until ...

“It used to be that this brown dwarf didn’t make any sense. We worried that we were doing something horribly wrong, or that our models were horribly wrong. But, no, everything’s fin ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet - sort of a celestial tweener.

Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar Observatory in 1995. But a pressing ...