Such small planets would have been a challenge to find around a larger, sunlike star.

This is not to say that a star has to be sunlike to potentially host life.

Kepler-34b orbits two sunlike stars once every 289 days at about the same distance as Earth is from the sun.

Explain," demands the slim young man with the sunlike eyes and white hair. "

Dust disks have now been found around more than 15% of nearby sunlike stars.

It is the first Earth-mass planet around a sunlike star ever found, scientists say.

Until now, all observed disks have been around Sunlike bodies, or even less massive stars.

He could command only sensation, an urge to reach that sunlike presence.

And he suggests that studying storms on other, sunlike stars could be helpful, too.

One is sunlike, while the other is smaller and fainter.

Until now, the researchers say, no planet younger than 100 million years old has been detected circling a sunlike star.

Numerous searches for planets in infant and mature sunlike systems are under way.

But the gaseous shells actually signal the last stages of a sunlike star's life.

Astronomers discovered the first exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star in 1995.

Near the center of this patch the team found a sunlike star moving three times as fast as it neighbors.

Kepler-9 is a sunlike star in the constellation Lyra.

Most sunlike stars in our galaxy are found in pairs known as binary systems.

Kepler-4 is a sunlike star located about 1631 light-years away in the constellation Draco.

Scientists say these young stars do exhibit behavior that differs from more adult sunlike stars.

In other words, approximately 40 percent of sunlike stars have at least one low-mass planet orbiting around it.

A planetary nebula is an interstellar gas and dust cloud left behind after a sunlike star has died.

It hit the com center in a sunlike flash of light, followed by a rippling shockwave.

Pingala has a sunlike nature and masculine energy.

With an apparent magnitude of 6.63, it is actually a yellow sunlike star located around 124 light-years distant from Earth.

The researchers say the deluge implies that one out of every three sunlike stars harbors such planets.