HD 136418 is an orange K-type dwarf (about 1.48 solar masses, 4,989 K, 3.78 solar radii), 105 light-years from Earth. HD 136418 b is a 2.14-Jupiter-mass companion, with an orbital period of 1.27 years, at 1.290 AU from its star, on an eccentric orbit (e ≈ 0.25), discovered in 2009 via radial velocity. The planet betrayed itself through the star's reflex motion — a technique that first revealed worlds around Sun-like stars in the 1990s and remains a workhorse of exoplanet discovery. The planet's marked eccentricity suggests past scattering events or perturbations from unseen companions.