Quarks to Quasars

New Planet Found: Molten “Mars” Is “Right Around the Corner”

Magma may cover UCF-1.01, which orbits scorchingly close to its star, as shown in an artist’s concept.

In a surprise find, astronomers have discovered a planet possibly covered with oceans of magma “right around the corner.”

Even more exciting to scientists is its size: about the same as Mars’s, which would make the new world the closest known planet smaller than Earth.

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