Astronomers using Kepler data have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet that orbits its star in only 8.5 hours, making Mercury an absolute slowpoke. Because the planet is so close to its star, surface temperatures there are incredibly hot, so astronomers think that surface is covered in lava.
This is a young system-- only 750 million years old-- so the world's fate may be uncertain.
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