An curved arrow pointing right. Astronomers were recently able to map the temperature of 55 Cancri E — a Super-Earth 40 light-years away — and discovered half the planet is almost completely ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Astronomers were recently able to map the temperature of 55 Cancri E — a Super-Earth 40 light-years away — and discovered half the planet is almost completely ...

The miniature star is around the same size as Jupiter ... around a planet twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar system. The 55 Cancri e planet has been described as a “super Earth” due ...

The star-orbiting time for 55 Cancri e takes just 17 hours, and hence the intense temperature of 2,400°C makes it like molten lava on the surface. In addition, researchers think the world can ...