Among the oldest mysteries of our solar neighborhood is the conspicuous absence of super-Earths — worlds that crowd the orbits of countless distant stars yet appear nowhere around our own sun. A new study now offers a haunting possibility: the sun itself may have consumed such a planet in its turbulent youth, leaving behind only faint chemical traces of that ancient act. If confirmed, this would mean our solar system's familiar architecture was shaped not only by what survived, but by what was lost — swallowed by the very star that gives us life.