"This planet could play a pivotal role in future missions... to search for biosignatures indicating potential life, " Dr.

Finding a world like Earth elsewhere in the universe might mean looking for the right kind of solar system. A new discovery ...

Stars like our own Sun produce “superflares” around once every 100 years, surprising astronomers who had previously estimated that such events occurred only every 3000 to 6000 years. The result, from ...

In deciphering sagas of eons past, astronomers find few examples more intriguing than Messier 67, or M67, which is a large, loosely bound group of sun-like ... formed like any normal star in ...

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...

Solar flares explode from our star's surface when potent and changing ... if the sun has all the requisite properties of these distant sun-like stars that would stoke such relatively frequent ...

the University of La Laguna (ULL) have confirmed the existence of a new super-Earth planet, HD 20794 d, in the habitable zone around the Sun-like star 82 Eridanus (HD 20794). This discovery is the ...

This helped them better understand the range of possible outcomes after a Sun-like star engulfs a planet. They found that it depends heavily on the planet’s size and the star’s current stage.

Solar researchers announced findings in December about sun-like stars that make it all the more imperative we closely monitor our star due to its potentially dangerous solar superflares.

Nearly 300 light-years away, it has a Sun-like star with two giant planets in orbit. Dubbed TYC 8998-760-1, this system could help scientists understand how our own solar system came into existence.