About this world
K2-140 b is a gas giant orbiting K2-140, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G6V) 1.13 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Jupiter and holds 0.93 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 6.57 days at 0.068 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 962 K (689 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.
It was discovered in 2017 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.