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.

To answer that question, the James Webb Space Telescope has turned its infrared eye toward a nearby sun-like star known as 55 Cancri. The newly published research from NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

R esearchers using NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope may have detected an atmosphere surrounding 55 Cancri e, a rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and ...