Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2025

TOI-6330 b

A gas giant orbiting the m-type red dwarf TOI-6330, located approximately 453.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 10.89 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3,179.00 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 26.81 g
  • An orbital period of 6.850 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0576 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 495 K (222 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 453.49 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.297
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 7,997,363 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-6330 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
10.89 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.972 R♃
Mass
3,179.00 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
10.000 M♃
Density
13.57 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
26.81 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.297
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

#1679of 1771

top 94.7%

This planet

10.89R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-6330 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0010.8911.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003,179.00317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.5113.571.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.0026.812.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.009.970.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 3,179.000 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 308120029

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 407530931116600320

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 407530931116600320

System

TOI-6330

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 10.890 R⊕ · percentile 5 / cohort 1771
Mass 3,179.000 M⊕ · percentile 88 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 6.85 d · percentile 41 / cohort 1533
Distance 139.04 pc · percentile 42 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.297 · percentile 57 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
6.850 days
Semi-major axis
0.0576 AU
Eccentricity
0.340
Inclination
88.41 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 6.85 Earth days (1.9% of a terrestrial year) on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 0.0576 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

3.313 %

Duration

2.230 h

Impact parameter b

0.520

Rp / R★

0.206000

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,459,901.3611

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 33,133 ppm lasting ≈ 2.23 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.206000

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

25.550

Impact parameter (b)

0.520

RV semi-amplitude (K)

1,710.000 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,459,901.3611

Long. of periastron (ω)

37.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.41400

Eq. Temperature

495K

(222 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

9.97

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.297

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.

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

Hotnisky et al. 2025

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2025-07

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-6330

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,539 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

7.60 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.490 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.531 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.08

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.770 dex

Stellar density

6.020 g/cm³

Rotational v·sin i

2.00 km/s

Rotation period

36.00 days

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
139.04 parsec
Light-years 453.49 ly
V-band magnitude
16.33 mag
Voyager-speed travel 7,997,363 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

9.017.517.48B16.33V14.93Gaia13.79TESS12.37J11.74H11.51K11.36W111.30W211.19W39.04W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

7.164 mas

Total Proper Motion

57.480 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-35.67 mas/yr

PM Declination

-45.07 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.548 · y = 0.223 · z = 0.806

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 22.16798° · Dec 53.68608°

Galactic ℓ, b

128.494° · -8.783°

Ecliptic λ, β

43.775° · 40.572°

HTM-20 index

906312245

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