Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2025

TOI-2346 b

A gas giant orbiting the f-type yellow-white TOI-2346, located approximately 1,426.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 16.12 Earth radii
  • A mass of 394.11 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.52 g
  • An orbital period of 3.331 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0473 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,689 K (1416 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,426.88 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.068
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 25,163,033 years

TOI-2346 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
16.12 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.438 R♃
Mass
394.11 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
1.240 M♃
Density
0.52 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.52 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.068
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

#153of 1771

top 8.6%

This planet

16.12R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-2346 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0016.1211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00394.11317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.521.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.522.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.001,360.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 394.107 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 317483660

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2996776253547606656

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2996776253547606656

System

TOI-2346

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 16.119 R⊕ · percentile 91 / cohort 1771
Mass 394.107 M⊕ · percentile 41 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 3.33 d · percentile 21 / cohort 1533
Distance 437.48 pc · percentile 72 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.068 · percentile 12 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
3.331 days
Semi-major axis
0.0473 AU
Eccentricity
0.086
Inclination
89.01 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.33 Earth days (0.9% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0473 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

1.147 %

Duration

3.797 h

Impact parameter b

0.130

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,459,040.8396

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 11,470 ppm lasting ≈ 3.80 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

7.400

Impact parameter (b)

0.130

RV semi-amplitude (K)

144.000 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,459,040.8396

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.10800

Eq. Temperature

1,689K

(1416 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

1,360.00

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.068

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched.

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

Yee et al. 2025

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2025-07

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-2346

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,480 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

1.90 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.380 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.271 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.265 dex

Stellar density

0.689 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
437.48 parsec
Light-years 1,426.88 ly
V-band magnitude
12.37 mag
Voyager-speed travel 25,163,033 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

9.212.812.81B12.37V11.92Gaia11.56TESS11.00J10.81H10.71K10.70W110.71W210.64W39.24W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.257 mas

Total Proper Motion

11.643 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-11.23 mas/yr

PM Declination

3.06 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.032 · y = 0.972 · z = -0.231

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 88.09291° · Dec -13.37247°

Galactic ℓ, b

218.564° · -19.035°

Ecliptic λ, β

87.679° · -36.796°

HTM-20 index

-62470033

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