A newly found super-Earth could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets twice the diameter of Earth.

Results of these observations, available in a research paper published August 28 on the pre-print server arXiv, suggest that the planet has a sulfur-rich atmosphere.

Researchers have discovered a thick atmosphere enveloping a planet called 55 Cancri e, which is twice the size of Earth and located in a nearby solar system.

A thick atmosphere has been detected around a planet that’s twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar system, researchers said. The so-called super Earth — known as 55 Cancri e — is among the ...

The so-called super Earth — known as 55 Cancri e — is among the few rocky planets outside our solar system with a significant atmosphere.

This was strange because a super-Earth planet in tight orbit around a star, a major source of vapor-destroying radiation, was no place for the stuff. The team concluded that if the planet did have a ...

On Earth, the atmosphere warms the planet, contains the oxygen people breathe, protects against solar radiation and creates the pressure needed for liquid water to remain on the planet’s surface.

Home > Science Webb Telescope Spots Atmosphere on Super-Hot Super-Earth This is the best evidence to date for an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet.

Astronomers spot lava-covered “Super Earth” that might somehow have an atmosphere ...

For the first time, a team of astronomers have successfully detected the atmosphere of a super-Earth located roughly 40 light years away.