Gliese 1214b is about 2.7 times Earth’s diameter and is almost 7 times as massive. It is located 42 light years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. The Japanese researchers used the 8.2 meter Subaru ...

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 ...

A nearby alien planet six times the size of the Earth is covered with a water-rich atmosphere that includes a strange "plasma form" of water, scientists say. Astronomers have determined that the ...

An artist’s rendition of Gliese 1214 b traveling in front of its star, shown in blue light (Credit: NAOJ) (via space.com) In recent years, astronomers have discovered a host of strange worlds—they ...

A Japanese research team has used the Subaru Telescope with blue transmission filters to determine that the super-Earth-sized planet Gliese 1214 b (GJ 1214 b) has a cloudless hydrogen-dominated ...

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 ...

“Our results show that the haze layer of GJ 1214 b must have a composition different from known celestial bodies,” says Maria Steinrueck from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, ...

GJ 1214 b is described as a super-Earth is located just 40 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Ophiuchus, and new research revealed the planet may have a water-rich atmosphere. Artist's ...