Kepler-656 c

A confirmed exoplanet orbiting Kepler-656.

Compared with Earth

Size
About 1.4 times Earth's width.
Temperature
About 702 °C (1,295 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
Starlight
About 213 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
Year
A year here lasts about 5.3 Earth days.

Planet

Radius
1.41 × Earth
Mass
Unknown
Density
Unknown
Equilibrium temperature
975 K
Starlight received
213.3 × Earth
Orbital period
5.254 days
Average distance from its star
0.0602 AU

Star

Host star
Kepler-656
Spectral class
G — sun-like
Surface temperature
5,550 K
Radius
0.954 × Sun
Mass
1.05 × Sun
Age
Unknown

System

Distance from Earth
2,904 light-years (890.4 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.