Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
TOI-4010 b
A confirmed world orbiting TOI-4010, 578.9 light-years away.
A sub-Neptune
3.02 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 1.3 Earth days.
Temperature and starlight
Its equilibrium temperature (the airless-world estimate) is about 1,168 °C. Hot enough to melt copper; any surface would glow. It receives 714.0 times the starlight Earth gets.
Its sun
Its star is an orange K-type (4,960 K), K V: cooler and longer-lived than the Sun, a class some astronomers consider ideal for habitability. It shares the system with 3 other known planets.
How far is that, really?
At 579 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1447. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 10,242,960 years to get there.
How we found it
It was found by the transit method: the planet crosses its star's face on schedule, dimming it by a tiny, repeating fraction. The dip's depth gives the planet's size. The discovery was announced in 2023 from Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
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.