A new study reveals fresh signs of geological activity on Venus — clues that the planet's mysterious surface is still ...

On July 22, 1972, a spacecraft landed on Venus! The Soviet space probe Venera 8 was the second spacecraft to successfully ...

Earth and its "evil twin" Venus are very different today, with the latter lacking plate tectonics. New research indicates Venus may have been much more like our planet than we suspected.

A computer-generated 3D model of Venus' surface provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows the volcano Sif Mons which is exhibiting signs of ongoing activity, in this undated handout image.

This is consistent with Venus having had a long-lasting dry surface and never having been habitable," Constantinou added. Venus is the second planet from the sun, and Earth the third.

Updated on: May 28, 2024 / 11:21 AM EDT / CBS News Radar images of the surface of Venus appear to show fresh lava flows, suggesting active volcanoes on the planet.

Yet Venus does not have plate tectonics, so it cannot renew its surface in the same way that Earth does over geological time periods. What Venus does have is volcanoes, and a lot of them — more ...

The surface of Venus is a hellscape with temperatures hot enough to melt lead, but some regions of its atmosphere high over the surface remain cool enough to harbor ice and birth ghostly clouds.

Volcanoes on the surface of Venus displayed on a research poster by Jayne Aubele at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. Nov. 3, 2023. (KRQE Digital Reporter Fallon Fischer) ...

The Magellan mission became the first one to image the entire surface of Venus before the spacecraft intentionally plunged into the planet's hot, toxic atmosphere in 1994 to collect a final set of ...

Venus once had oceans made of carbon dioxide, researchers say. According to a study, unlike Earth’s water-filled oceans Venus consisted of a liquid-like form of co2 that may have helped shape ...