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Mercury's Shrinkage Revised Upward After Study Finds Craters Hide Tectonic Faults

Surface roughness and impact ejecta mask contractional landforms, with upcoming BepiColombo altimetry set to test the revision.

Study Says Mercury Has Shrunk More Than Previously Estimated

Study: Liquid Nitrogen Has Recently Reached Pluto’s Surface

High-Resolution 3D Models Suggest Venus's Rift Valleys Are Recently Active

Juno Measures Hidden Heat Beneath Jupiter’s Moon Io

MOMA Chiral Test Validated and Meteorite Study Reveals Petroleum Contamination Risk

Seismic Study Finds Thick Ultramafic Layer Under Mars and Vast Deep Magma Plumbing

Lunar Meteorite Reveals a 3.486‑Billion‑Year‑Old, Extremely High‑Temperature Impact

First Subsurface Lava Tube Detected on Venus in Reprocessed Magellan Radar

Machine Learning Maps 400 Bright Slope Streaks on Mercury, Hinting at Ongoing Volatile Loss

New Model Shows Salty Europa Ice Could Sink, Ferrying Nutrients to Its Hidden Ocean

Study Finds Europa’s Seafloor Likely Inactive, Undercutting Hopes for Present-Day Life

Peer-Reviewed Study Links Europa’s ‘Spider’ to Brine Eruptions Like Earth’s Lake Stars

Study Finds Subsurface Oceans Could Boil Inside Small Icy Moons

Study Finds Enceladus’ Heat Loss Matches Tidal Input, Indicating a Long-Lived Ocean

Conference Model Points to Rare, Distant Technological Civilizations in the Milky Way

Study Detects Solid Inner Core on Mars, Redrawing the Planet’s Interior