About this world
K2-62 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-62, an orange dwarf (type K4V) 367 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.2 times the size of Earth and holds 6.6 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 16.2 days at 0.11 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 554 K (281 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.
It was discovered in 2016 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. K2-62 has 2 known planets; the others are K2-62 b.