About this world
Kepler-62 e is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-62, an orange dwarf (type K2V) 981 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.6 times the size of Earth and holds 36 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 122 days at 0.43 AU from its star.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 270 K (−3 °C), which places it in the optimistic habitable zone: the band where liquid water could exist on a rocky surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere. Its atmosphere has already been studied: 2 spectroscopic observations.
It was discovered in 2013 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-62 has 5 known planets; the others are Kepler-62 b, Kepler-62 c, Kepler-62 d and Kepler-62 f.