SANTA CLARA — The NFL has told 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk to put his touchdown celebration on ice because, the league said, it too closely resembles slamming down an adult beverage. Juszczyk will ...

Texas is undergoing its biggest demographic, social and economic changes since the 1820s, when the first American colonists arrived in Mexico’s Coahuila y Tejas province. While white men hold 63% of ...

In a Mercury flyby in 2024, the European Space Agency's BepiColombo spacecraft captures the solar system's innermost planet. Credit: ESA / JAXA / BepiColombo / MTM The solar system's smallest planet ...

New estimates using the planet’s surface wrinkles show that our smallest planet is growing even smaller, at a faster clip than expected. By K. R. Callaway Mercury is, by far, the smallest planet in ...

New research suggests Mercury has shrunk more drastically than previously believed. The planet's cooling interior causes its surface to wrinkle and contract over time. Debris from asteroid and comet ...

A new study shows that little, wrinkly Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected, the cosmos’ version of a grape shriveling into a raisin under the sun. Scientists from the German Aerospace Center ...

The findings come courtesy of data gathered by the Mercury MESSENGER spacecraft—a ship whose name was derived from the decidedly clumsy acronym “MErcury Surface, Space ENviron ...

WASHINGTON — Mercury’s surface is riddled with wrinkles, evidence of a once-larger planet that has shrunk over time. A new study finds that Mercury may have contracted 10% to 30% more than previously ...

Everyone gets wrinkles eventually—even planets. On Mercury, these signs of aging look like hills and ridges, called shortening structures, across its surface. As the planet shrinks and contracts over ...

Telltale wrinkles that cover Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, suggest it was once a larger world that has shrunk in size — and it may be shrinking more than scientists realized. The smallest ...