Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2025

TOI-5143 c

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange TOI-5143, located approximately 591.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 16.25 Earth radii
  • An orbital period of 5.210 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0560 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 904 K (631 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 591.58 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.071
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 10,432,544 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-5143 c Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
16.25 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.450 R♃
Mass
M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
M♃
Density
g/cm³
Surface Gravity
g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.071
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

#143of 1771

top 8.0%

This planet

16.25R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-5143 c Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0016.2511.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.511.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.002.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00158.160.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 281837575

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3815937670648091392

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3815937670648091392

System

TOI-5143

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 16.253 R⊕ · percentile 92 / cohort 1771
Orbital period 5.21 d · percentile 38 / cohort 1533
Distance 181.38 pc · percentile 48 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.071 · percentile 13 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5.210 days
Semi-major axis
0.0560 AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
86.02 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.21 Earth days (1.4% of a terrestrial year) at a mean orbital distance of 0.0560 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

1.139 %

Duration

1.698 h

Impact parameter b

0.980

Rp / R★

0.175000

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,459,527.2426

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 11,395 ppm lasting ≈ 1.70 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.175000

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

14.140

Impact parameter (b)

0.980

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,459,527.2426

Sky-projected obliquity (λ)

2.10°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.30900

Eq. Temperature

904K

(631 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

158.16

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.071

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

Radzom et al. 2025

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2025-03

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-5143

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,183 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

7.40 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.852 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.864 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.11

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.514 dex

Stellar density

2.070 g/cm³

Rotational v·sin i

2.53 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
181.38 parsec
Light-years 591.58 ly
V-band magnitude
11.94 mag
Voyager-speed travel 10,432,544 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

8.615.215.25U12.19B11.94V11.81Gaia11.27TESS12.88Sloan g11.84Sloan r11.64Sloan i12.38Sloan z10.47J10.10H9.98K9.92W19.97W29.80W38.56W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

5.485 mas

Total Proper Motion

49.260 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-49.26 mas/yr

PM Declination

-0.12 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.964 · y = 0.252 · z = 0.090

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 165.36512° · Dec 5.13948°

Galactic ℓ, b

248.030° · 55.806°

Ecliptic λ, β

164.537° · -1.026°

HTM-20 index

-484116227

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