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 ...

The researchers identified 2,889 superflares in 2,527 of the 56,450 observed stars, meaning that a superflare is produced by a Sun-like star, on average, around once every century.

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 stars dwelling in the outskirts of ... that ...

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 ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go?

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 ...

Otherwise, it looks like a normal sun-like star. The term "blue" is a bit of a misnomer because the star's color blends in with all the other solar-mass stars in the cluster. Hence it is sort of ...

Astronomers modeled sunspot activity on a nearby red giant star to learn about its chaotic ... in starspots on XX Trianguli do not follow sun-like magnetic cycles, which the authors say is likely ...