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 ...

Astronomers using NASA’s state-of-the-art James Webb Space Telescope have made a groundbreaking discovery of GJ 1214 b, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What secrets do you hold, planet GJ 1214 b? NASA turned the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to a world 48 light-years away, a type of planet called a "mini-Neptune" that's bigger than Earth but ...

At just 40 light years from Earth, Gliese 1214b is one of the nearest Super-Earths we’ve discovered in our search for planets beyond the solar system. Now, a team of Japanese researchers say it could ...