A big bully pummeled our sun in its infancy, fatefully altering the composition and evolution of the solar system, a new study suggests. The heavy, in this case, was a nearby, massive star. First, the ...

That star at the center of our Solar System, that superhot ball of plasma that gives us heat and energy, and amazing ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The death of a massive nearby star billions of years ago offers evidence the sun was born in a star cluster, say astronomers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rather ...

The Sun had "sisters" when it was born, according to new research — hundreds or thousands of them. At least one was a supernova, providing further support for the idea that there could be lots of ...

People sometimes ask what would happen if the Sun suddenly exploded, often after seeing a dramatic film or picture online. It ...

Several months ago, a suspected supernova was discovered that had scientists scratching their heads. If confirmed as a supernova, ASASSN-15lh would be twice as luminous and 10 times brighter than the ...

Astronomer Robert Quimby has done it again. Found the most luminous supernova ever, that is. Quimby discovered the current record holder, supernova 2006gy, last year as part of his Texas Supernova ...

The long-serving space telescope observed the supernova in a galaxy 150 million light-years away which released 2.5 billion times more energy than the sun. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

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