About this world
TOI-6002 b is a super-Earth orbiting TOI-6002, a cool red dwarf (type M3.5+/-) 104 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.6 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 10.9 days at 0.057 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 321 K (48 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.
It was discovered in 2024 by transit with Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.