The super-Earth — which is a classification used for any planet with a mass 1 to 10 times greater than that of our home planet — is named 55 Cancri e and located about 40 light-years away from our solar system.*
A new study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday*details the temperature map of the world, and even*suggests that the exoplanet, which was first discovered a few years ago, may have lava flows on its surface.*