a huge shield volcano that rises three miles above the surrounding plains. Planet Venus from NASA, Magellan Program. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images) “The estimates of how often ...

It can be hard to know what's going on beneath Venus' super-dense atmosphere, but new data analysis from the decades-old Magellan mission reveals surface changes around two volcanoes. The study ...

Revealing a landscape dominated by more than 85,000 volcanoes. But it was hard to see in the images if any were recently active, or if, like Mars, they were relics of the past. So why does Venus ...

A new paper in JGR Planets provides the most comprehensive map of all volcanic edifices on Venus ever compiled. The dataset was created by planetary scientists Paul Byrne and Rebecca Hahn at ...

That's the message from a team of planetary scientists, who have explained Venus' apparent dearth of large craters by discovering that impacts could have produced the mysterious "tesserae ...

The study, by Dr. S.E. Smrekar at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, was titled, "Recent Hotspot Volcanism on Venus from VIRTIS Emissivity Data." Advanced Search Home ...

It will use a form of radar to chart surface elevations and discover whether volcanoes and earthquakes are still happening. "It is astounding how little we know about Venus, but the combined ...

Paul K. Byrne / Sean C. Solomon. A radar view of Lavinia Planitia, on Venus, where the planet's rocky outer layer has broken into blocks (purple) delineated by belts of tectonic structures (yellow ...

Pictures of Venus are certainly hard to come by, but ScienceAlert shows that the images we do have portray a … Continue ...

Gula Mons: This computer-simulated view from NASA Magellan spacecraft of the surface of Venus, displays the Gula Mons volcano. A 'peaceful' planet: This seemingly peaceful view of Venus was ...