Kepler-1996 c
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting Kepler-1996.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 2.8 times Earth's width.
- Temperature
- About 3 °C (37 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 1.4 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 93 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- 2.81 × Earth
- Mass
- Unknown
- Density
- Unknown
- Equilibrium temperature
- 276 K
- Starlight received
- 1.38 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 92.73 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.3608 AU
Star
- Host star
- Kepler-1996
- Spectral class
- K — orange dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 4,580 K
- Radius
- 0.675 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.748 × Sun
- Age
- Unknown
System
- Distance from Earth
- 1,437 light-years (440.6 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 2
Discovery
- Year
- 2023
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- Kepler
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.