Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2025

TOI-5736 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange TOI-5736, located approximately 301.2 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.56 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.05 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.25 g
  • An orbital period of 0.649 days
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,311 K (1038 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 301.24 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.218
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 5,312,349 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-5736 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.56 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.139 R♃
Mass
3.05 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.010 M♃
Density
4.41 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.25 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.218
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

#636of 1176

top 54.0%

This planet

1.56R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-5736 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.5611.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.05317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.411.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.252.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00493.480.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 310380289

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 1508499824114581504

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 1508499824114581504

System

TOI-5736

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.560 R⊕ · percentile 45 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.050 M⊕ · percentile 41 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 0.65 d · percentile 2 / cohort 1164
Distance 92.36 pc · percentile 16 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.218 · percentile 16 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
0.649 days
Semi-major axis
AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
84.50 °

Year Length

A year here lasts roughly 15.6 hours long.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.062 %

Duration

1.135 h

Impact parameter b

0.435

Rp / R★

0.024700

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,458,738.8968

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 616 ppm lasting ≈ 1.13 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.024700

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

4.530

Impact parameter (b)

0.435

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,458,738.8968

Eq. Temperature

1,311K

(1038 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

493.48

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.218

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2025-12

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-5736

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

3,949 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.580 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.570 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.669 dex

Stellar density

4.136 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-1.76 km/s

Distance
92.36 parsec
Light-years 301.24 ly
V-band magnitude
13.55 mag
Voyager-speed travel 5,312,349 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

8.915.115.10B13.55V12.90Gaia11.98TESS10.83J10.16H10.00K9.89W19.89W29.81W38.92W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

10.798 mas

Total Proper Motion

89.336 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-33.28 mas/yr

PM Declination

-82.91 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.540 · y = -0.361 · z = 0.760

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 213.75840° · Dec 49.50094°

Galactic ℓ, b

92.861° · 62.462°

Ecliptic λ, β

183.031° · 57.269°

HTM-20 index

-890451646

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