The Oregon Department of Forestry is assessing damage done by the spruce aphid along the Oregon Coast after an outbreak in ...

A spruce aphid outbreak detected earlier this year around Yachats on the central Oregon coast is prompting ODF to assess the ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Bernadette Vangool Photo Nest Spruce (Picea abies 'Nidiformis') at the Heritage Rose Garden at the Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park. Let’s begin with some definitions. A “mixed border” consists mainly of ...

If you’re looking for a pint-sized evergreen tree for year-round garden color, the dwarf Alberta spruce is always a popular pick. This plant is impressively cold tolerant, thrives in a range of ...

When mature, dwarf Alberta spruce can measure up to 13 feet in height and 10 feet ... grow these hollies as a mini-hedge — they'll respond like boxwoods. Do watch for black root rot. When not grown in ...

In a separate search through the DESI data, the team identified 300 intermediate-mass black hole candidates -- the most extensive collection to date. Most black holes are either lightweight (less ...

A supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) may be the source of nine stars zooming through our galaxy – a surprising hint that dwarf galaxies can host large black holes.

American elm is highly susceptible to this disease. Trees favored by dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobium sp.) are conifers, mainly black spruce and lodgepole pine. Dwarf mistletoe infests significant ...

White dwarfs are among the most compact objects in the cosmos, though not as dense as a black hole. Stars with up to eight times the mass of our sun appear destined to end up as a white dwarf.