Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2025

TOI-1846 b

A super-earth orbiting the m-type red dwarf TOI-1846, located approximately 154.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.79 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.87 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.21 g
  • An orbital period of 3.931 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0365 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 568 K (295 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 154.11 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.499
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,717,684 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Context from the literature

TOI-1846 b is a confirmed exoplanet discovered using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). It orbits a star in the constellation of Aries and is one of the numerous small exoplanets that populate the "radius valley," a gap in the size distribution of exoplanets that separates rocky super-Earths from gaseous sub-Neptunes. TOI-1846 b is particularly important for ongoing studies of planetary formation and evolution.

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TOI-1846 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.79 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.160 R♃
Mass
3.87 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.012 M♃
Density
3.70 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.21 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.499
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

#269of 1176

top 22.8%

This planet

1.79R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-1846 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.7911.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.87317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.701.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.212.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0017.350.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 198385543

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 1420011162670761600

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 1420011162670761600

System

TOI-1846

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.792 R⊕ · percentile 77 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.870 M⊕ · percentile 70 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 3.93 d · percentile 30 / cohort 1164
Distance 47.25 pc · percentile 10 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.499 · percentile 72 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
3.931 days
Semi-major axis
0.0365 AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
88.65 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.93 Earth days (1.1% of a terrestrial year) at a mean orbital distance of 0.0365 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.171 %

Duration

1.419 h

Impact parameter b

0.464

Rp / R★

0.041370

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,459,565.9552

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 1,712 ppm lasting ≈ 1.42 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.041370

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

19.750

Impact parameter (b)

0.464

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,459,565.9552

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.77200

Eq. Temperature

568K

(295 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

17.35

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.499

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.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Soubkiou et al. 2025

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2025-06

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-1846

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,568 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

7.20 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.397 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.418 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.17

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.862 dex

Stellar density

9.430 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
47.25 parsec
Light-years 154.11 ly
V-band magnitude
13.97 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,717,684 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

9.215.615.56B13.97V12.99Gaia11.85TESS10.39J9.80H9.60K9.43W19.32W29.24W39.24W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

21.135 mas

Total Proper Motion

220.118 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-61.63 mas/yr

PM Declination

211.32 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.121 · y = -0.568 · z = 0.814

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 257.95496° · Dec 54.52785°

Galactic ℓ, b

82.299° · 36.075°

Ecliptic λ, β

238.384° · 76.642°

HTM-20 index

1306803982

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