NASA's keen eyes in the sky have spotted a curious creature of a planet, more than eight times the size of Earth, trailing through its own solar system. This otherworldly giant, dubbed GJ 1214 b ...

Magma ocean planets that contain water – like the earthlike exoplanet GJ 1214 b in this artist’s concept – will only host a tiny fraction of this water on their surface. The majority of it ...

The planet, GJ 1214 b, is located a mere 48 light-years away ... and so it required careful statistical analysis to ensure that it is real,” explains Kazumasa Ohno, a researcher at the National ...