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 ...

Future missions to Venus could also supply additional data on the density and temperature of the planet's crust, which could ...

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

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

It's easy to imagine space volcanoes as even more ferocious and devastating versions of the ones scattered across Earth, but in reality, most of them have fallen into dormancy. Volcanic features have ...

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 ...

Venus has more volcanoes than any other world in the solar system—more than 1,600 have been spotted in radar images. Several studies in the past ten years have suggested that these volcanoes may ...

Now, Venus is not as active as Earth, but it's more active than anywhere else we know that's Earth-like. The reason you see so many volcanoes on Venus is partly due to the fact that there's ...

So our moon has ‘lumps’ and ‘bumps’, then - in planetary order from the sun - Mercury has ‘ridges’ and ‘craters’, Venus has ‘clouds’ and ‘volcanoes’, the Earth has ‘life ...

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