Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2025

NGTS-35 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange NGTS-35, located approximately 597.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 10.90 Earth radii
  • A mass of 152.00 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.28 g
  • An orbital period of 25.241 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1600 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 451 K (178 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 597.12 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.310
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 10,530,209 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

NGTS-35 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
10.90 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.972 R♃
Mass
152.00 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.478 M♃
Density
0.65 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.28 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.310
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2025
Method Transit
Facility Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Telescope 0.1 m TESS Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1672of 1771

top 94.4%

This planet

10.90R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth NGTS-35 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0010.9011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00152.00317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.651.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.282.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.009.840.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 152.000 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 333736132

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3531943236058701824

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3531943236058701824

System

NGTS-35

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 10.900 R⊕ · percentile 5 / cohort 1771
Mass 152.000 M⊕ · percentile 12 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 25.24 d · percentile 48 / cohort 1533
Distance 183.08 pc · percentile 48 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.310 · percentile 61 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
25.241 days
Semi-major axis
0.1600 AU
Eccentricity
0.192
Inclination
88.82 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 25.24 Earth days (6.9% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.1600 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

1.610 %

Duration

2.958 h

Impact parameter b

0.812

Rp / R★

0.131700

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,459,334.0296

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 16,103 ppm lasting ≈ 2.96 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.131700

Impact parameter (b)

0.812

RV semi-amplitude (K)

40.800 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,459,334.0296

Long. of periastron (ω)

38.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.87400

Eq. Temperature

451K

(178 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

9.84

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.310

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Detection Signatures

Transit photometry

A transit dip has been observed from at least one telescope.

Radial velocity

Stellar wobble has been measured spectroscopically.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Kendall et al. 2025

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2025-12

Observation locale

Space

Host System: NGTS-35

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,717 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

1.50 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.753 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.789 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.09

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.570 dex

Stellar density

2.459 g/cm³

Activity index (log R'HK)

-4.562

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
183.08 parsec
Light-years 597.12 ly
V-band magnitude
13.06 mag
Voyager-speed travel 10,530,209 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

8.414.114.08B13.06V12.72Gaia12.07TESS11.18J10.68H10.56K10.48W110.56W210.45W38.36W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

5.434 mas

Total Proper Motion

45.504 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-43.45 mas/yr

PM Declination

-13.51 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.885 · y = 0.152 · z = -0.439

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 170.27634° · Dec -26.06662°

Galactic ℓ, b

278.779° · 32.534°

Ecliptic λ, β

182.298° · -27.614°

HTM-20 index

-494794073

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