Exoplanet
Kepler-242 b
1,957.72 light-years
- Discovery
- Transit · 2014
- Radius
- 2.61 (+1.6 / −1.6) Earth radii
- Mass
- 7.32 Earth masses
- Orbital period
- 8.204 (+2 × 10⁻⁵ / −2 × 10⁻⁵) days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.075 AU
- Equilibrium temperature
- 742 K
- Mass provenance
- M-R relationship
Measurements may come from different studies and need not form one self-consistent model. “Msini” is a minimum mass; a mass inferred from radius is an estimate. Equilibrium temperature is a model estimate, not a measured surface temperature or evidence of habitability.
NASA archive record and references ↗
Snapshot retrieved: 2026-10-11T04:15:07.688253+00:00