While we’re all fascinated by supernovas and how awesome they look, our own Sun will not go supernova at the end of its lifetime. For our Sun to go supernova, it would need to be about 10 times larger ...

xAs tragic as it sounds, the engulfment of a planetary object by its stellar parent is a common scenario throughout the Universe. But it doesn’t have to end in doom. A team of astrophysicists has used ...

When our sun exhausts the hydrogen fuel in its core some 5 billion years from now, it will expand to become a red giant, engulfing the inner planets. The dynamics and possible outcomes of planetary ...