Exoplanet
K2-87 b
1,602.22 light-years
- Discovery
- Transit · 2016
- Radius
- 7.6 (+0.4 / −0.4) Earth radii
- Mass
- 44.9 Earth masses
- Orbital period
- 9.7266 (+5.5 × 10⁻⁵ / −5.5 × 10⁻⁵) days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.094 (+1 × 10⁻³ / −1 × 10⁻³) AU
- Equilibrium temperature
- 979 (+28 / −28) 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