We're talking about a surface covered in oceans of lava. ... "55 Cancri e" was discovered in 2011, and has since been extensively studied by NASA researchers and others.

We only discovered 55 Cancri e in 2004, and only started getting a decent understanding of it in 2011. Its light was teased out from the star’s just a year after that . So our exploration of ...

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55 Cancri e is a super-Earth — about twice our planet's size — that zooms around its star in 18 days. It has a surface temperature of nearly 4,900 degrees Fahrenheit (2,700 degrees Celsius).

Now, astronomers at MIT have revealed that exoplanet 55 Cancri e — once thought to be a dry, rocky world — may be literally oozing with supercritical fluids. The discovery is a strange one, to ...

Located about 41 light-years away, 55 Cancri e is roughly twice the diameter and nine times the mass of Earth. Nothing inherently hellish about that, but it’s located so close to its star that ...

Astronomers have found a planet that gives new meaning to the word “bling.” Twice the size of Earth and eight times heavier, this weird world may be at least one-third pure diamond. Forty ...

Twice as big as Earth, the super-Earth 55 Cancri e was thought to have lava flows on its surface. The planet is so close to its star, the same side of the planet always faces the star, such that ...

A study of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope data showed the exoplanet 55 Cancri e has an atmosphere very similar to Earth in density and composition.

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