Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2025

TOI-912 b

A super-earth orbiting the m-type red dwarf TOI-912, located approximately 85.2 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.93 Earth radii
  • A mass of 5.10 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.37 g
  • An orbital period of 4.678 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0410 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 551 K (278 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 85.15 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.510
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,501,624 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-912 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.93 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.172 R♃
Mass
5.10 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.016 M♃
Density
4.00 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.37 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.510
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

#85of 1176

top 7.1%

This planet

1.93R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-912 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.9311.21
Mass (M⊕)1.005.10317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.001.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.372.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0015.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 5.100 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 406941612

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 5772442647192375808

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 5772442647192375808

System

TOI-912

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.930 R⊕ · percentile 92 / cohort 1176
Mass 5.100 M⊕ · percentile 93 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 4.68 d · percentile 38 / cohort 1164
Distance 26.11 pc · percentile 5 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.510 · percentile 74 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4.678 days
Semi-major axis
0.0410 AU
Eccentricity
0.580
Inclination
88.70 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.68 Earth days (1.3% of a terrestrial year) on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 0.0410 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.203 %

Duration

1.700 h

Impact parameter b

0.340

Rp / R★

0.042100

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,458,628.4061

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 2,029 ppm lasting ≈ 1.70 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.042100

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

20.700

Impact parameter (b)

0.340

RV semi-amplitude (K)

4.290 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,458,628.4061

Long. of periastron (ω)

-169.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

1.57000

Eq. Temperature

551K

(278 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

15.00

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.510

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

Lacedelli et al. 2025

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2025-09

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-912

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,572 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

0.80 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.419 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.418 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.19

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.980 dex

Stellar density

7.754 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

10.47 km/s

Rotation period

45.90 days

Activity index (log R'HK)

-5.176

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
26.11 parsec
Light-years 85.15 ly
V-band magnitude
12.67 mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,501,624 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 7 bands

8.214.214.17B12.67V11.65Gaia10.49TESS9.09J8.47H8.20K

Astrometric Data

Parallax

38.275 mas

Total Proper Motion

460.611 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-450.96 mas/yr

PM Declination

-93.82 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.108 · y = -0.126 · z = -0.986

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 229.32857° · Dec -80.47334°

Galactic ℓ, b

308.917° · -19.344°

Ecliptic λ, β

257.996° · -58.748°

HTM-20 index

452162030

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