As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.

The discovery piqued the team's interest, and they conducted further analysis. Their finding was exciting: filamentous ...

Known as lithospheric dripping—named for the fragmenting of rocky material that makes up Earth's crust and upper mantle—the process results in significant deformations at the surface such as ...

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"We have confirmed that a deformation on the surface of an area of the Andes Mountains has a large portion of the lithosphere [Earth's crust and upper mantle] below avalanched away," Julia ...

The meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 7325 was initially proposed as a possible fragment of Mercury. However, its mineralogy ...

The squeezing of its crust created features such as wrinkle ridges—tight waves in the rock that form over time as the surface draws together. [ First Photos of Mercury from Orbit (Gallery) ] ...