46 Cancri is a star in the zodiac constellation of Cancer, located around 680 light years away from the Sun.
It is a dim, yellow-hued star, near the lower limits of visibility to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.12.
[2] The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of –13.1 km/s.
[2] It has a stellar classification of G5 III,[3] matching an aging giant star that has consumed the hydrogen at its core and evolved away from the main sequence.
46 Cancri is 740 million years old with 2.65[2] times the mass of the Sun.