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Our nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, hosts a temperate terrestrial planet. We detected in radial velocities evidence of a possible second planet with minimum mass mc sin ic = 5.8 ± 1.9M⊕ and orbital period P c = 5.21 −0.22 +0.26 years. The analysis of photometric data and spectro-scopic activity diagnostics does not explain the signal in terms of a stellar activity cycle, but follow-up is required in the coming years for confirming its planetary origin. We show that the existence of the planet can be ascertained, and its true mass can be determined with high accuracy, by combining Gaia astrometry and radial velocities. Proxima c could become a prime target for follow-up and characterization with next-generation direct imaging instrumentation due to the large maximum angular separation of ~1 arc second from the parent star. The candidate planet represents a challenge for the models of super-Earth formation and evolution. ; Progetto Premiale 2015 FRONTIERA funding scheme of the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research Italian Space Agency INAF Italian Space Agency Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT) CONICYT FONDECYT CONICYT project Basal Spanish MINECO State Agency for Research of the Spanish MCIU through the "Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa" award Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) European Union (EU)

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission was designed to find transiting planets around bright, nearby stars. Here, we present the detection and mass measurement of a small, short-period (≈4 days) transiting planet around the bright (V=7.9), solar-type star HD 86226 (TOI-652, TIC 22221375), previously known to host a long-period (∼1600 days) giant planet. HD 86226c (TOI-652.01) has a radius of 2.16±0.08R⊕ and a mass of - 7.25+1.12 1.19 M⊕, based on archival and new radial velocity data. We also update the parameters of the longer-period, not-known-to-transit planet, and find it to be less eccentric and less massive than previously reported. The density of the transiting planet is 3.97 gcm−3, which is low enough to suggest that the planet has at least a small volatile envelope, but the mass fractions of rock, iron, and water are not well-constrained. Given the host star brightness, planet period, and location of the planet near both the "radius gap" and the "hot Neptune desert," HD 86226c is an interesting candidate for transmission spectroscopy to further refine its composition. ; NASA's Science Mission directorate NASA through Hubble Fellowship grant - Space Telescope Science Institute HST-HF2-51399.001 National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) NAS5-26555 18-XRP18_2-0048 CONICYT-PFCHA/Doctorado Nacional, Chile 21140646 European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant 713673 "la Caixa" INPhINIT Fellowship grant LCF/BQ/IN17/11620033 European Research Council (ERC) 724427 Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT) CONICYT FONDECYT 1161218 Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT) Basal AFB-170002 Spanish Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness PGC2018-098153-B-C31 Heising-Simons Foundation Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) European Commission 200020_172746 National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)