Featured Image: Artist’s illustration of GJ 1214 b and its parent star. (Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) “The detected CO2 signal from the first study is tiny, and so it required ...

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 ...

GJ 1214 b’s did not produce strong Rayleigh scattering and, based on previous research on this super-Earth, lead the team of researchers to conclude the planet has a water-rich atmosphere.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered exoplanet GJ 1214 b, situated 48 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. This planet has a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere, presenting a ...

Webb tracked the full orbit of GJ 1214 b, allowing scientists to create a “heat map." This map showed a big change in temperature between the mini-Neptune’s day and night sides — only ...

After almost 15 years of futile efforts, an international team of researchers involving the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has determined some of the atmosphere’s properties of the exoplanet GJ ...

Super-Earth 40 light years away 'is rich in water with a thick, steamy atmosphere', confirm Japanese astronomers GJ 1214b is 2.6 times Earth’s diameter and weighs seven times as much It was ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a new class of alien planets, so-called steamy waterworlds. The discovery is based on the planet GJ 1214b, which appears hot, wet and ...

The world has been identified as GJ 1214b and after analyzing it astronomers have discovered that it is an Earth-like super-planet located outside of our solar system. Astronomer Zachory Berta ...

GJ 1214 b, discovered by NASA’s James Webb Telescope, is a carbon dioxide-rich super-Venus exoplanet offering new perspectives on planetary science and challenging traditional planetary ...