55 Cancri

See what scientists think the nearby alien planet 55 Cancri e looks like.  

A year on the extrasolar planet lasts just 18 hours. The planet 55 Cancri e was first discovered in 2004 and is not a habitable world. Instead, it is known as a super-Earth because of its size: The world is about twice the width of Earth and is ...  

According to astronomers 55 Cancri e is not a habitable world as it is 26 times closer to its star (55 Cancri) than what is Mercury to our Sun, which makes its day time temperature a scorching 3000 °F (over 1700 °C). A discovery that marks an ...  

Despite its approaching nine year birthday, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Great Observatory designed to detect infrared light, is still making extraordinary discoveries. Roughly 41 light years away is the star 55 Cancri and around it orbits the planet 55 Cancri e, which was first discovered in 2004. Since then it has been closely studied by many observatories because it is a super-Earth, a planet larger than Earth but still smaller than a...  

Light from an alien "super-Earth" twice the size of our own Earth has been detected by a NASA space telescope for the first time in what astronomers are calling a historic achievement. NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope spotted light from the alien planet 55 Cancri e, which orbits a star 41 light-years from Earth. A year on the extrasolar planet lasts just 18 hours. The planet 55 Cancri e was first discovered in 2004 and is not a...  

NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope spotted light from the alien planet 55 Cancri e, which orbits a star 41 light-years from Earth. A day on the extrasolar planet lasts just 18 hours. The planet 55 Cancri e was first discovered in 2004 and is not a ...  

Scientists using NASA’s infrared Spitzer Space Telescope have detected light for the first time emitting from a “super-earth,” called planet 55 Cancri e. The Christian Science Monitor reports that planet 55 Cancri e was discovered in 2004.