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 ...

In 2018, a patch of sky 11 billion light-years away suddenly exploded with light. Researchers thought the galaxy looked ...

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 ...

As astronomers have learned more about the tumultuous and unforgiving nature of the universe, we've been comforted to know that there are no stars in our cosmic backyard threatening to go supernova.

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 than being an ...