Shutterstock Mercury is already the smallest planet in the solar system (unless you still include Pluto, which some of us are still bitter about). While it is already the smallest, it is actually ...

Preface / W. Roger Buck...[et al] -- Global systematics of mid-ocean ridge morphology / Christopher Small -- Linkages between faulting, volcanism, hydrothermal activity and segmentation on fast ...

What do many baked goods and the planet Mercury have in common? They shrink as they cool. Evidence suggests that since it formed about 4.5 billion years ago, Mercury has continuously contracted as it ...

A schematic diagram of the faulting processes of the 2024 M7.6 Noto Peninsula earthquake sequence. The crustal processes and faults broken during the long-lasting intense earthquake swarm are based on ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. National Air and Space Museum planetary scientist Tom Watters describes how Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is revealing previously undetected ...