This isn’t a scene from a science fiction novel—it’s Venus, our cosmic neighbor, and one of the most volcanically active worlds in the solar system. For centuries, Venus has been shrouded in ...

These rifts often seem to entirely postdate the many volcanoes that cover all of Venus’ surface, showing that at some point there may have been a transition from a very volcanically active stage to a ...

Venus, often written off as a geologically dead world, is far more active beneath its blistering surface than previously thought, according to new research. Unlike Earth, Venus lacks the ...

Magellan used its radar to see through Venus's thick atmosphere. NASA's decades-old Magellan mission has revealed possible signs of tectonic activity on Venus. This discovery is surprising ...

A fresh look at decades-old NASA data hints that Venus is not as quiet as once thought. Scientists now suggest that the planet may have active tectonic processes. The study focused on large ...

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its rocket-assisted toss to the cloud-veiled world. Major elements of that failed ...

Alongside a crescent moon, Mercury, Venus and Saturn will become visible to stargazers just before dawn on Friday morning. According to NASA, the planetary phenomenon will be clearest about 45 ...

Kosmos 482 had been bound for Venus but never reached its destination. Russian space agency Roscosmos on Saturday said a Soviet space probe that took off in March 1972 to explore the planet Venus ...