Confirmed exoplanet · Database record + computed analysis
TOI-500 e
A confirmed world orbiting TOI-500, 154.6 light-years away.
A sub-Neptune
3.99 Earth radii, likely a rocky core under a thick gas or steam envelope rather than a walkable surface. At only 15.1 Earth masses for that size, it must be substantially gas or volatile ices: puffy, not rocky.
The orbit
Its year, one full orbit, takes just 61.3 Earth days.
Its sun
Its star is an orange K-type (4,440 K), K6 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 155 light-years, tonight's light from this system left it around the year 1871. A Voyager-speed probe would need roughly 2,734,803 years to get there.
How we found it
It was found by the radial-velocity method: the planet's gravity swings its star in a small circle, and that wobble shows up as a rhythmic Doppler shift in the starlight. The wobble's size gives the planet's minimum mass. The discovery was announced in 2022 from La Silla Observatory.
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.