Venus, the hottest planet in the solar system, is estimated to have 85,000 volcanoes, based on radar images from NASA's 1989 ...

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

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

Take a tour of the space volcanoes on other planets and moons across the Solar System, and find out how they differ from ...

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.

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 ...

Known since the Venera and Magellan radar mapping missions to Venus in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, coronae are created when plumes of hot material deep inside the planet rise from the mantle ...

The partial disk of the northern hemisphere of Venus, as revealed by radar data from the Magellan orbiter. In the 1990s, Magellan saw patches of rugged terrain called tessera. A future lander ...

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

There will be a large planetary alignment on Aug. 10, 2025, featuring Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn, ...

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.