Kepler-11g is an exoplanet discovered in the orbit of the sunlike star Kepler-11 by the Kepler space telescope, a NASA satellite tasked with searching for terrestrial planets.

Because Kepler-11g was the furthest of the six, it was given the designation "g." The Kepler team's scientists conducted follow-up observations to confirm or reject the planetary nature of the detected object.

As with the discovery of Kepler-9d, the Kepler team ran the information through numerous models to see if Kepler-11g's light curve could fit the profile of some other object, including an eclipsing binary star in the background that may have contaminated the data.

The probability that Kepler-11g is not a planet but instead a false positive was determined to be 0.18%, effectively confirming its existence.

According to formation models, the planet has a gaseous envelope of light elements comprising about 10% of its mass.

In comparison, planet Mercury orbits the Sun every 87.97 days at a distance of 0.387 AU.