Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2025

TOI-2267 d

A super-earth orbiting the m-type red dwarf TOI-2267 B, located approximately 73.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.77 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.78 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.21 g
  • An orbital period of 2.034 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0145 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 422 K (149 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 73.55 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.650
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,297,022 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-2267 d Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.77 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.158 R♃
Mass
3.78 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.012 M♃
Density
3.75 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.21 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.650
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

#293of 1176

top 24.8%

This planet

1.77R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-2267 d Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.7711.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.78317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.751.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.212.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.005.300.037

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.770 R⊕ · percentile 73 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.780 M⊕ · percentile 67 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 2.03 d · percentile 12 / cohort 1164
Distance 22.55 pc · percentile 5 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.650 · percentile 83 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.034 days
Semi-major axis
0.0145 AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
89.00 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.03 Earth days (0.6% of a terrestrial year) at a mean orbital distance of 0.0145 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.114 %

Duration

0.708 h

Impact parameter b

0.449

Rp / R★

0.121000

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,460,625.7200

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 1,142 ppm lasting ≈ 0.71 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.121000

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

22.693

Impact parameter (b)

0.449

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,460,625.7200

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.64300

Eq. Temperature

422K

(149 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

5.30

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.650

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

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2026-02

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-2267 B

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,022 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

1.00 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.130 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.099 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.16

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.996 dex

Stellar density

60.400 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-19.00 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

17.60 km/s

Rotation period

0.49 days

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
22.55 parsec
Light-years 73.55 ly
V-band magnitude
mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,297,022 yr

Astrometric Data

Total Proper Motion

291.499 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

192.45 mas/yr

PM Declination

-218.94 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.037 · y = 0.081 · z = 0.996

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 65.06150° · Dec 84.90083°

Galactic ℓ, b

127.339° · 23.935°

Ecliptic λ, β

85.439° · 61.859°

HTM-20 index

1900834722

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