Take TrEs-2b, it's a planet made of a substance that's darker than coal. Then there's Gliese 436 b (otherwise known as GJ 436 b). This alien world is located approximately 30 light-years from ...

Its name is Gliese 436 b. As interesting as planets made of boiling ice or diamond are, nothing trumps dreams of paradisiacal alien Edens. As I said, Wilhelm Gliese isn’t an especially well ...

Genf – Entdeckt wurde Gliese 436 b schon vor gut drei Jahren: Der Exoplanet mit dem rekordverdächtigen "Kometenschweif" – eine riesige Wasserstoffwolke, die er hinter sich herzieht – kreist ...

But Gliese 12 b, located 40 light-years away in the constellation Pisces, could be the most sensational find to date. Its discovery is outlined in a paper published today in Monthly Notices of the ...

Also depicted is the parent star, which is a faint red dwarf named Gliese 436. The hydrogen is evaporating from the planet due to extreme radiation from the star. A phenomenon this large has never ...

A Neptune-sized world in a distant solar system orbits very close to its star and might be covered with exotic forms of water not naturally found on Earth, scientists say. The bizarre world is ...

The study, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on Thursday, named the new planet Gliese 12 b. Scientists said in the study that the planet is “the nearest, transiting ...

The distance separating Gliese 12 and Gliese 12 b is just 7% of the distance between Earth and the sun, NASA said. The planet receives 1.6 times more energy from its star than Earth does from the sun.