09 June 2017
Key ingredients to life found around Sun-like stars
... complex prebiotic molecule that is a key ingredient to life, around three solar-type protostars. This chemical building block of life is methyl isocyanate, a complex organic...likely to be present near most new young solar-type stars,” added Ligterink
14 December 2017
AI detects eighth planet orbiting distant sun
...found to harbour eight planets orbiting its host star. Kepler 90 is G0 type star, meaning it is a little bit hotter ...significant advances in our understanding of planetary systems around other stars. I’m sure there are more firsts in the data waiting...
02 February 2016
First detected hot corino in Orion sheds light on low-mass star formation processes
...association with all the ingredients of the Sun-like star formation recipe, the authors note that HH212 stands ... with slow out-flowing gas. On the path of evolution of solar-type stars, the Class 0 phase is the main accretion phase during which most ...
19 May 2017
Exoplanets galore and possibly the next Trappist-1 system?
...-up could rival the recently announced Trappist-1 system, which has seven planets in a favourable position near to its star. HD 20794 is a G8 main-sequence type star that is around 0.8 percent the mass of our Sun (the Sun is a G2 main-sequence...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... giant radio telescopes; the preferred targets were solar-type stars within our galaxy. Rapid technological development made it possible...astrobiology. Here, the most famous case is the Boyajian star, with its extremely unusual lightcurve: most of the ...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
... worlds that are of a similar size and orbit a Sun-like star. But should we limit our search there? No, says Dirk Schulze...form of complex life appeared on Earth. As such, G-type stars like our sun, might run out of fuel before complex life can develop....
