About this world
Kepler-968 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-968, an orange dwarf 947 light-years from Earth. It is about 2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 3.69 days at 0.039 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 745 K (472 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", its star has probably stripped its atmosphere away, leaving bare rock.
It was discovered in 2016 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-968 has 3 known planets; the others are Kepler-968 c and KOI-1833 d.