Pt. Umesh Chandra Pant explains the profound spiritual purpose of Vedic astrology. It serves as a guide to understanding ...

It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star. But it’s not, and in fact it’s not even close: The sun is in the top 90th percentile of stars by mass.

The first stars were massive, hot, and bright, forming from primordial clumps of hydrogen and helium. They lived fast and died young, but not before producing new elements in their stellar remains ...