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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. In the early 1990s, NASA’s Magellan spacecraft captured data from Venus, proving that ...

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.

Data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter is used in an undated composite image of the planet Venus. It will consist of four planets, including Venus, Saturn, Mercury ...