TOI-406.01
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting TOI-406.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 2.1 times Earth's width.
- Mass
- About 6.6 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About 95 °C (203 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 3 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 13 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- 2.08 × Earth
- Mass
- 6.57 × Earth
- Density
- 4.1 g/cm³
- Equilibrium temperature
- 368 K
- Starlight received
- 3 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 13.18 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.0809 AU
Star
- Host star
- TOI-406
- Spectral class
- M — red dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 3,392 K
- Radius
- 0.41 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.408 × Sun
- Age
- Unknown
System
- Distance from Earth
- 101.3 light-years (31.06 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 2
Discovery
- Year
- 2024
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.