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

Venus is a Victim of a Rampant Greenhouse Effect Venus's atmosphere is made mostly of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gasses that traps heat and causes the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide ...

The first private spacecraft mission to Venus will combat the planet's hellish conditions with the aid of a novel woven heat ...

After this mission, the 1989 Magellan orbiter mission was the US’s next and final Venus mission. The Venus surface, as photographed by the USSR Venera 13 in 1982 (recolorized). Since the 2010s ...

Another planetary alignment is coming up next month, and while it won't be a large one, it'll still be enough to dazzle ...

In 1990, NASA's Magellan mission became the first spacecraft to image the entire surface of Venus. This allowed scientists to determine the thermal, chemical and mechanical evolution of the planet ...

So Venus presents us with an opportunity to study the ongoing evolution of a geologically active Earth-like planet. That's one of the most exciting things we've learned from the Magellan mission.