It is thought the sun may have engulfed a super-Earth-sized planet early in its history. Now, a new study has gone a step further, suggesting that such an event may have left behind detectable clues ...

Did the sun swallow a planet early in its history? Scientists think our sun might have consumed a super-Earth-sized planet billions of years ago. The blue path depicts the orbit the doomed planet ...

Stellar evolution can be really chaotic, so it’s no surprise that a planet or two—or more—gets sucked into the abyss at some point in cosmic history. According to new research published in the Monthly ...