Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2025

TOI-7149 b

A gas giant orbiting the m-type red dwarf TOI-7149, located approximately 411.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.20 Earth radii
  • A mass of 224.00 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.29 g
  • An orbital period of 2.652 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0260 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 593 K (320 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 411.37 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.223
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 7,254,466 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-7149 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.20 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.180 R♃
Mass
224.00 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.705 M♃
Density
0.53 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.29 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.223
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

#847of 1771

top 47.8%

This planet

13.20R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-7149 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.2011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00224.00317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.531.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.292.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0020.600.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 224.000 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 459323923

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 1200751810900182400

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 1200751810900182400

System

TOI-7149

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.200 R⊕ · percentile 49 / cohort 1771
Mass 224.000 M⊕ · percentile 23 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 2.65 d · percentile 12 / cohort 1533
Distance 126.13 pc · percentile 40 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.223 · percentile 41 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.652 days
Semi-major axis
0.0260 AU
Eccentricity
0.078
Inclination
89.25 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.65 Earth days (0.7% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0260 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

12.619 %

Duration

1.726 h

Rp / R★

0.333400

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,459,703.5961

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 126,188 ppm lasting ≈ 1.73 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.333400

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

15.520

RV semi-amplitude (K)

216.000 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,459,703.5961

Long. of periastron (ω)

-16.40°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.20600

Eq. Temperature

593K

(320 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

20.60

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.223

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

Kanodia et al. 2025

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2025-06

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-7149

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,363 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

7.80 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.351 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.344 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.08

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.880 dex

Stellar density

11.200 g/cm³

Rotational v·sin i

2.00 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
126.13 parsec
Light-years 411.37 ly
V-band magnitude
mag
Voyager-speed travel 7,254,466 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 15 bands

9.120.920.86U19.26B16.16Gaia14.83TESS18.31Sloan g16.88Sloan r15.41Sloan i14.61Sloan z13.16J12.47H12.23K12.03W111.91W212.05W39.12W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

7.901 mas

Total Proper Motion

15.034 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-7.76 mas/yr

PM Declination

12.88 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.403 · y = -0.854 · z = 0.328

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 244.73847° · Dec 19.17581°

Galactic ℓ, b

34.971° · 41.967°

Ecliptic λ, β

238.313° · 39.877°

HTM-20 index

1300428449

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