Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2025

TOI-5489 c

A super-earth orbiting the m-type red dwarf TOI-5489, located approximately 147.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.28 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.18 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.33 g
  • An orbital period of 4.921 days
  • Equilibrium temperature 536 K (263 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 147.07 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.578
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,593,509 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

1 sibling around TOI-5489

TOI-5489 c shares its host star with 1 other confirmed planet. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
TOI-5489 b Super-Earth 1.40 2.54 3.152 624 2025
TOI-5489 c this Super-Earth 1.28 2.18 4.921 536 2025

TOI-5489 c Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.28 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.114 R♃
Mass
2.18 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.007 M♃
Density
5.71 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.33 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.578
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

#1117of 1176

top 94.9%

This planet

1.28R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-5489 c Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.2811.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.18317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.711.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.332.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0013.870.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 468983280

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 602498085299079680

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 602498085299079680

System

TOI-5489

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.280 R⊕ · percentile 4 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.180 M⊕ · percentile 5 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 4.92 d · percentile 40 / cohort 1164
Distance 45.09 pc · percentile 10 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.578 · percentile 80 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4.921 days
Semi-major axis
AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
88.80 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.92 Earth days (1.3% of a terrestrial year).

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.088 %

Duration

1.407 h

Impact parameter b

0.449

Rp / R★

0.028100

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,458,496.3254

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 885 ppm lasting ≈ 1.41 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.028100

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

21.830

Impact parameter (b)

0.449

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,458,496.3254

Eq. Temperature

536K

(263 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

13.87

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.578

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

2025-12

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-5489

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,547 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.420 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.410 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.810 dex

Stellar density

8.019 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

37.71 km/s

Distance
45.09 parsec
Light-years 147.07 ly
V-band magnitude
13.82 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,593,509 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

8.017.217.19U15.30B13.82V12.82Gaia11.69TESS15.59Sloan g13.32Sloan r12.27Sloan i12.78Sloan z10.28J9.69H9.46K9.32W19.21W29.08W37.96W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

22.149 mas

Total Proper Motion

69.282 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-66.12 mas/yr

PM Declination

20.70 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.613 · y = 0.765 · z = 0.199

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 128.69129° · Dec 11.48959°

Galactic ℓ, b

214.064° · 28.090°

Ecliptic λ, β

128.106° · -6.979°

HTM-20 index

1054869958

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