Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2025

TOI-771 c

A super-earth orbiting the m-type red dwarf TOI-771, located approximately 82.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.50 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.87 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.28 g
  • An orbital period of 7.610 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0460 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 365 K (92 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 82.45 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.771
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,453,976 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

1 sibling around TOI-771

TOI-771 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-771 b Super-Earth 1.36 2.47 2.326 543 2024
TOI-771 c this Super-Earth 1.50 2.87 7.610 365 2025

TOI-771 c Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.50 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.134 R♃
Mass
2.87 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.009 M♃
Density
4.67 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.28 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.771
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2025
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Paranal Observatory
Telescope 8.2 m ESO VLT UT3 Melipal Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#748of 1176

top 63.5%

This planet

1.50R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-771 c Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.5011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.87317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.671.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.282.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.003.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 2.870 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 277634430

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 5229384714547758720

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 5229384714547758720

System

TOI-771

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.500 R⊕ · percentile 35 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.870 M⊕ · percentile 34 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 7.61 d · percentile 56 / cohort 1164
Distance 25.28 pc · percentile 5 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.771 · percentile 88 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
7.610 days
Semi-major axis
0.0460 AU
Eccentricity
0.065
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 7.61 Earth days (2.1% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0460 AU.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

42.000

RV semi-amplitude (K)

2.580 m/s

Long. of periastron (ω)

-82.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

1.82000

Eq. Temperature

365K

(92 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

3.00

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.771

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — liquid water is physically possible with adequate atmospheric pressure. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Lacedelli et al. 2025

Instrument

ESPRESSO

Publication

2025-04

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: TOI-771

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,370 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

6.70 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.232 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.220 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.13

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.800 dex

Stellar density

23.685 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-5.90 km/s

Rotation period

98.00 days

Activity index (log R'HK)

-6.360

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
25.28 parsec
Light-years 82.45 ly
V-band magnitude
14.89 mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,453,976 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

8.916.816.77B14.89V13.37Gaia12.09TESS10.51J9.96H9.66K9.48W19.30W29.17W38.89W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

39.530 mas

Total Proper Motion

86.005 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

39.48 mas/yr

PM Declination

-76.41 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.281 · y = 0.080 · z = -0.956

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 164.11389° · Dec -72.98517°

Galactic ℓ, b

294.660° · -11.987°

Ecliptic λ, β

227.472° · -65.393°

HTM-20 index

-1232841563

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