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 ...

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 ...

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 colored overlay shows the emissivity derived from VIRTIS surface brightness data, acquired by ESA's Venus Express mission. The high emissivity area (shown in red and yellow) is centered on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.' ...

India’s space agency, ISRO, has received government approval to move forward with its ambitious Venus mission, Shukrayaan, ...