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 molten. Follow Tech Insider ...

An curved arrow pointing right. 55 Cancri e – a planet eight times the size of Earth – is 40 light-years away. Astronomers just found out what its air is made of. Produced by Matthew Stuart.

Also called Janssen, 55 ... [+] Cancri e is a so-called super- Earth, a rocky planet significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, which orbits its star at a distance of only 1.4 ...

Often nicknamed the "hell planet," 55 Cancri e is completely covered in flowing seas of lava, and it may even rain lava there ...

A unique planet named 55 Cancri e has been discovered, situated around 41 light-years away from our planet. This finding ...

Early targets for investigation include the so-called "Styrofoam world" Kelt-11b; the "lava planet" 55 Cancri-e; and the "evaporating planet" GJ-436b. Discovered in previous surveys of the sky ...

While most of them are very different from Earth and unlikely to be hospitable to creatures anything like us – like 55 Cancri e ... them to calculate each planet's volume, based on how much ...

55 Cancri e, a super-Earth eight times heavier ... 7,000 km/h send glass particles hurtling horizontally, making this planet a deadly place with horizontal glass rain. A new study suggests Earth ...