About this world
Kepler-446 d is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-446, a cool red dwarf (type M4) 314 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.4 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 5.15 days at 0.04 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 436 K (163 °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 2015 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-446 has 3 known planets; the others are Kepler-446 b and Kepler-446 c.