Science news articles about 'sunlike stars'

A hot, young body 500 light-years from Earth could be the first planet outside our solar system circling a sunlike star to have its picture taken, astronomers report.

The oscillations of three stars within 200 light-years of Earth could help astronomers refine models of how stars like our sun operate on their insides.

... Mars to five times Earth's -- orbiting a sunlike star. Using NASA's Thunderhead supercomputer at Goddard ... lose orbital energy and drift closer to the star. "The particles spiral inward and then become ...

Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The ...

A new image-processing method stripped away starlight to reveal the earliest known picture of a planet circling a sunlike star, astronomers have announced.

A ring of gas and dust surrounding a pair of sunlike stars is the first proof that planets can form around closely orbiting stellar partners, new images reveal.

Sunlike stars that have relatively low lithium content also tend to host planets