Scientists have published new details about a scorching hot super-Earth where a year only lasts 17.5 hours and its surface is an ocean of lava. The 55 Cancri e — abbreviated 55 Cnc e — is roughly ...

Researchers may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date for the existence of any rocky planet ...

With the help of NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope, scientists are learning more about exoplanet "55 Cancri e," which is about 41 light years away from Earth -- and it's a scorcher. The ...

Researchers utilizing Webb believe they have detected atmospheric gases enveloping 55 Cancri e, an exoplanet located 41 light-years away from Earth. NASA said that this discovery represents the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered evidence of a carbon-rich atmosphere around the hellish world 55 Cancri e. This marks the best evidence yet of an atmosphere around a ...

The planet 55 Cancri e is less than 1.5 million miles from its sun-like star, NASA says. That’s 1/25 the distance Mercury is from our sun. NASA expects to get its first telescope images of the planet ...