Convection processes beneath Venus' scorched surface may help explain the planet's many volcanoes, a new study reports.Venus, ...

New research suggests that Venus could be much more geologically active than previously thought. A groundbreaking study by ...

Future missions to Venus could also supply additional data on the density and temperature of the planet's crust, which could ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

It's easy to imagine space volcanoes as even more ferocious and devastating versions of the ones scattered across Earth, but in reality, most of them have fallen into dormancy. Volcanic features have ...

Venus, however, is a different story. Its crust is thicker—anywhere from 30 to 90 kilometers—and its surface is extremely hot ...

Even though Venus moves between the Earth and sun every 19.5 months, it becomes visible after sunset and before sunrise only ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...