What is the most Earth-like exoplanet?

Wolf 1069 b is the most Earth-like exoplanet known, ranked by the Earth Similarity Index (0.97) among habitable-zone worlds. Everything about Wolf 1069 b

Most Earth-like world known
Wolf 1069 b
0.97 · 31.3 ly from Earth
The top ten
#WorldEarth Similarity IndexDistance
★ 1Wolf 1069 b0.9731.3 ly
2TRAPPIST-1 e0.9540.5 ly
3TOI-700 d0.95102 ly
4TOI-700 e0.94102 ly
5Teegarden's Star b0.9412.5 ly
6Kepler-1649 c0.93301 ly
7GJ 1061 d0.9312.0 ly
8GJ 1002 b0.9315.8 ly
9Kepler-442 b0.911,194 ly
10GJ 3378 b0.9125.2 ly
How we know

The Earth Similarity Index is computed by gravityfinder from a world's radius and equilibrium temperature (the Schulze-Makuch 2011 weighting), with Earth defined as 1.0. This record ranks worlds in or near the habitable zone; Earth itself tops the full ranking and is excluded here because it is not an exoplanet.

A high score is not a promise of a second Earth: it says nothing about atmosphere, water, or a breathable sky, only that the size and the sunlight are right. What could unseat this record: a newly confirmed temperate world whose size and temperature land even closer to Earth's; the transit and radial-velocity surveys deliver fresh candidates every year.

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