Few exoplanets have captured the imagination quite like 55 Cancri e, a scorched world sometimes nicknamed the diamond planet. Orbiting a Sun-like star about 40 light-years away, this super-Earth ...

Forty light-years away sits a scorched world that once earned one of astronomy’s most dazzling nicknames: the diamond planet.

Berkeley -- A team of American astronomers announced today (Tuesday, Nov. 6) the discovery of a record-breaking fifth planet around the nearby star 55 Cancri, making it the only star aside from the ...

A fifth planet has been discovered around the star 55 Cancri, making the planetary system that largest known system besides our own solar system with eight planets. The binary star 55 Cancri, within ...

Mysteries of one of the most fascinating nearby planetary systems now have been solved. The study, which presents the first viable model for the planetary system orbiting one of the first stars ...

The star 55 Cancri was one of the first known exoplanet hosts and each of the planets in this system is remarkable. Planets b and c are in a near 1:3 resonance. Planet d has a 14.5 year orbit, and is ...

Mysteries of one of the most fascinating nearby planetary systems now have been solved. A new study presents the first viable model for the planetary system orbiting one the first stars discovered to ...

A record-breaking fifth planet has been discovered around 55 Cancri, a yellowish star 41 lightyears from Earth and now the only known star apart from the Sun with 5 planets. The discovery implies that ...