GJ 1214 b, absolutely a planet with an unusual structure. It occupies a rare middle ground between Earth-like rocky planets and Neptune-like ice giants, but it's neither hydrogen-rich nor dominated by ...

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.

The cosmos never ceases to amaze, and the atmospheric origin of the exoplanet GJ 1214 b is revealed thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). These results challenge previous conceptions and ...

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 using the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed a planet unlike any other. GJ 1214 b, located 48 light-years away in Ophiuchus, defies typical planetary classifications. With a dense ...

“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, ...

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 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 ...

Astronomers and planetary scientists have observed planetary transits of super-Earth GJ 1214 b (Gilese 1214 b). The team investigated whether this planet has an atmosphere rich in water or hydrogen.