Can exoplanets have metal-rich atmospheres? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of international researchers investigated a new type ...

Astronomers first found GJ 1214 b in 2009, orbiting a star 48 light-years away in the direction of our constellation Ophiuchus. Scientists thought it was most likely a super-Earth – larger and more ...

Astronomers using NASA’s state-of-the-art James Webb Space Telescope have made a groundbreaking discovery of GJ 1214 b, a planet unlike any we've seen before. Located 48 light-years away in the ...

Artist’s impression of GJ 1214 b passing in front of its host star. The “transit method” allows astronomers to study an exoplanet by seeing which wavelengths of light dim when the star’s light passes ...

40 light years away from Earth, circling a small star in the constellation of Ophiuchus, there's a super-Earth called Gliese 1214 b. Also known as GJ 1214 b, it was discovered in 2009 and has been a ...

The universe still contains many mysterious places, but with every discovery made, our horizons expand towards understanding the vast expanse of cosmos. One of such discoveries made through the James ...

For the first time, researchers have measured the light emitted by a sub-Neptune planet’s atmosphere. For more than a decade, astronomers have been trying to get a closer look at GJ 1214b, an ...

Located only 48 light years from the solar system, in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus, GJ 1214 b is the easiest example of this planet to study. Instead of a hydrogen-rich super-Earth, or ...

Figure 1: Artist's rendition of a transit of GJ 1214 b in blue light. The blue sphere represents the host star GJ 1214, and the black ball in front of it on the right is GJ 1214 b. (Credit: NAOJ). A ...

A strange planet that's stymied astronomers for years has an "unusually shiny atmosphere" and could be home to large amounts of water vapor, scientists said in a study published Wednesday in the ...