The Kepler-26 system contains 4 exoplanets. It is located 1093.62 light years away from the solar system.
| Mass | 0.54 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.51 solar radiae |
| Temperature | 3914 kelvin |
| Stellar Metallicity | -0.13 decimal exponent |
| Age | 2.95 billion years |
At more than 10 Earth masses, Kepler-26 b is an ice giant, a planet that is made up mostly of volatiles like water, amonia and methane, and enveloped by a dense hydrogen and helium atmosphere, much like Uranus and Neptune.
| Mass | 5.120 Earth masses |
| Density | 1.260 grams per cubic centimeter |
| Radius | 2.780 Earth radiae |
| Semi-major Axis | 0.08551 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0 |
| Orbital Period | 12.280 days |
| Discovery Method | Transit |
| Discovery Facility | Kepler |
| Discovery Telescope | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope |
| Discovery Instrument | Kepler CCD Array |
| Discovery Date | 2012-04 |
| Reference | Steffen et al. 2012 |
At more than 10 Earth masses, Kepler-26 c is an ice giant, a planet that is made up mostly of volatiles like water, amonia and methane, and enveloped by a dense hydrogen and helium atmosphere, much like Uranus and Neptune.
| Mass | 6.200 Earth masses |
| Density | 1.610 grams per cubic centimeter |
| Radius | 2.720 Earth radiae |
| Semi-major Axis | 0.10725 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0 |
| Orbital Period | 17.256 days |
| Discovery Method | Transit |
| Discovery Facility | Kepler |
| Discovery Telescope | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope |
| Discovery Instrument | Kepler CCD Array |
| Discovery Date | 2012-04 |
| Reference | Steffen et al. 2012 |
At less than 1.5 Earth masses, Kepler-26 d is a terrestrial planet, much like the terrestrial planets we find in our solar system, namely Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
| Mass | 1.240 Earth masses |
| Density | 5.560 grams per cubic centimeter |
| Radius | 1.070 Earth radiae |
| Semi-major Axis | 0.039 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0 |
| Orbital Period | 3.544 days |
| Discovery Method | Transit |
| Discovery Facility | Kepler |
| Discovery Telescope | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope |
| Discovery Instrument | Kepler CCD Array |
| Discovery Date | 2014-03 |
| Reference | Rowe et al. 2014 |
At more than 10 Earth masses, Kepler-26 e is an ice giant, a planet that is made up mostly of volatiles like water, amonia and methane, and enveloped by a dense hydrogen and helium atmosphere, much like Uranus and Neptune.
| Mass | 6.390 Earth masses |
| Density | 2.510 grams per cubic centimeter |
| Radius | 2.410 Earth radiae |
| Semi-major Axis | 0.22 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0 |
| Orbital Period | 46.828 days |
| Discovery Method | Transit |
| Discovery Facility | Kepler |
| Discovery Telescope | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope |
| Discovery Instrument | Kepler CCD Array |
| Discovery Date | 2014-03 |
| Reference | Rowe et al. 2014 |