Magnetic Field Low Activity
Why is this a Carbon World? Your planet's carbon (55.6%) outweighs its oxygen (6.3%), so the mineralogy flips from silicate rock to carbide - a graphite crust over a diamond mantle. Carbon worlds form in carbon-rich disks where there isn't enough oxygen to bind it all into silicates. Instead carbon condenses directly into graphite, carbides, and - under pressure at depth - diamond. They form water-poor, so no life takes hold.
✓ Carbon: 55.6% (>=20% required) ✓ Carbon exceeds Oxygen: 55.6% > 6.3% ✓ Mass: 0.6x Earth (<=8x hycean ceiling)
Habitability Score Extremely Harsh
Contributing Factors water 37
Good water content - boiling away, little would be retained (low gravity lets water escape to space) geology 60
Some geological activity provides slow nutrient cycling rotation 100
Optimal rotation period - balanced day/night cycle, moderate weather, and good heat distribution Organic Chemistry 80
Core organic elements (CHNO) present atmosphere 40
Atmosphere present but composition not ideal for life temperature 15
Extremely hot - hostile to known life forms magnetic Field 100
Magnetic field provides radiation protection Physical Properties Mass
0.60x Earth (3.58e+24 kg) Radius
0.84x Earth (5,374 km) This planet: 0.84× Earth radius Earth: 1× (baseline)
Surface Gravity
0.84x Earth (8.3 m/s²) Surface Temperature
517 K (244 °C / 471 °F) Rotation Period
29.0 hours/day (slower than Earth) This planet: 29 h/day Earth: 24 h/day Orbital Environment Star Type
A-type (Blue-White) Distance from Star
5.27 AU (788 million km) Atmosphere Carbon monoxide and methane haze over a graphite surface
Surface Characteristics Graphite plains and carbide ridges over a diamond mantle - a glittering coal-black world Closest Real Exoplanet Orbiting Kepler-138 Yours Kepler-138 e Mass 0.60 × Earth 0.43 × Earth Radius 0.98 × Earth 0.80 × Earth Density (composition) 3.54 g/cm³ 4.68 g/cm³ Temperature 516.9 K 292.0 K Starlight received 1.44 × Earth 1.73 × Earth Star temperature 8,750 K 3,841 K
Discovered 2022 via transit timing variations · 218 light-years away Source: NASA Exoplanet Archive Browse all 5,568 real exoplanets Learn more about exoplanets