NGTS-26 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting NGTS-26.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 15 times Earth's width.
- Mass
- About 93 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About 1,058 °C (1,936 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 523 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 4.5 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- 14.89 × Earth
- Mass
- 92.81 × Earth
- Density
- 0.153 g/cm³
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,331 K
- Starlight received
- 523 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 4.52 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.049 AU
Star
- Host star
- NGTS-26
- Spectral class
- G — sun-like
- Surface temperature
- 5,550 K
- Radius
- 1.16 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.96 × Sun
- Age
- 11.5 billion years
System
- Distance from Earth
- 3,567 light-years (1,094 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 1
Discovery
- Year
- 2024
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS)
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.