KPS-1 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting KPS-1.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 12 times Earth's width.
- Mass
- About 346 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About 1,186 °C (2,167 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 729 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 1.7 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- 11.55 × Earth
- Mass
- 346.4 × Earth
- Density
- 1.31 g/cm³
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,459 K
- Starlight received
- 729 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 1.706 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.0269 AU
Star
- Host star
- KPS-1
- Spectral class
- K — orange dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 5,165 K
- Radius
- 0.907 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.892 × Sun
- Age
- Unknown
System
- Distance from Earth
- 856.8 light-years (262.7 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 1
Discovery
- Year
- 2018
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- Acton Sky Portal Observatory
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.