Venus's plentiful volcanoes are still active, and may erupt at a similar rate to volcanoes on Earth, new research has found. Scientists have long known that Venus is littered with volcanoes ...

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 ...

With NASA’s fleet of heliophysics spacecraft, scientists monitor our Sun and investigate its influences throughout the solar ...

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 ...

If this is really an impact structure, it would be Venus' oldest and largest, giving us a rare glimpse into Venus' past and informing early planet processes.' ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the new BBC series Solar System, physicist Dr Brian Cox explores acid rain, ice mountains and nitrogen glaciers on Earth's neighbouring planets.

Venus is the most misunderstood planet in our solar system. ESA's Envision mission seeks to uncover its climate, history, and possibly its past habitability.

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 ...

Olympus Mons, Mars' immense shield volcano, towers 21 kilometers above its surface, dwarfing Earth's Mount Everest. Covering an area akin to Italy, it ...

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 ...