Mercury may be the runt of the solar system, but it still can beat up on the newly discovered Kepler-37b, the smallest planet known.
Scientists used NASA’s Kepler space telescope to detect the shadow the planet casts when it crosses in front of its star, 215 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra.
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