Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
TOI-2015 c
A confirmed world orbiting TOI-2015, 154.4 light-years away.
A sub-Neptune
2.93 Earth radii, likely a rocky core under a thick gas or steam envelope rather than a walkable surface.
The orbit
Its year, one full orbit, takes just 5.6 Earth days. Orbiting this tightly around a cool star, it is very likely tidally locked: one hemisphere in permanent day, the other in permanent night.
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 175 °C. Above water's boiling point. It receives 6.7 times the starlight Earth gets.
Its sun
Its star is a red dwarf (3,297 K surface), type M4 +/- 0.5: small, dim, flare-prone, and destined to outlive the Sun many times over. It shares the system with 1 other known planet.
How far is that, really?
At 154 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1871. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 2,732,033 years to get there.
How we found it
It was found through transit timing variations: its gravity nudges a sibling planet's transits early and late, betraying its presence without ever being seen directly. The discovery was announced in 2025 from Multiple Observatories.
Everything above is computed from the archive’s measured values for this planet. Where a quantity is missing, the statement is omitted rather than guessed.
About this record
The measured values come from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, and any missing value has not been determined yet; the Atlas never fills gaps with guesses. More standout worlds: Proxima b, TRAPPIST-1e, K2-18 b, 55 Cancri e, and the detection methods that found them all.