Planet-eating star HD 240430, nicknamed Kronos, and its binary twin HD240429, nicknamed Krios, are about 350 light-years away from Earth. Astrophysicists estimate that Kronos has consumed around 15 ...

The Sun has been pretty good to us here on Earth over the last billion or so years. Sure we get the occasional solar storm and some deviations from ideal temperatures. But, by and large, we have a ...

01:08, Tue, Oct 24, 2017 Updated: 02:03, Tue, Oct 24, 2017 Researchers from Princeton University have named the stars Kronos and Krios – the former is said to have feasted on up to 15 planets.

The star has been named after a Greek mythological character, Titan, who ate his own children including Poseidon (well known as the planet Neptune), Hades (Pluto) and three daughters is 350 light ...