The planet's discovery was first reported on the SuperWASP website. WASP-24 is a F-type star located 340 parsecs (1,100 light years) away. The star is an estimated 1.129 times the mass of the Sun. WASP-24 is also 1.147 times the radius of the star, making the star both larger and more massive than the Sun. WASP-24 has an effective temperature of 6100 K, hotter than the Sun. WASP-24 has a metallicity similar to that measured in the Sun. The star's estimated age is 3.8 billion years old, although the star's age is not well-constrained. WASP-24 has an apparent magnitude of 11.3. It cannot be seen from Earth with the naked eye. WASP-24b is a Hot Jupiter that has a mass of 1.032 times the mass of Jupiter. Its radius is 1.104 times the radius of Jupiter. In addition, with a mean distance of 0.0359 AU between it and its star, where one AU is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun, WASP-24b completes an orbit every 2.3412083 days (roughly 57 hours). In comparison, Mercury orbits the Sun every 87.97 days at a distance of 0.387 AU. WASP-24b's orbital inclination is 83.64º, placing WASP-24b almost edge-on with respect to Earth and to its host star. The study in 2012, utilizing a Rossiter–McLaughlin effect, have determined the planetary orbit is well aligned with the equatorial plane of the star, misalignment equal to -4.7°.