Venus likely has at least three dozen active volcanoes on its surface, according to a new study. The research, published in Nature Geoscience, found evidence of 37 active volcanoes on the planet ...

Venus' atmosphere contains much higher levels of sulfur dioxide than on Earth. On our planet, the smelly, toxic gas is produced by volcanoes. [Planet Venus: Quiz Yourself on Venus Facts] ...

Venus, being the forsaken place it is, is the rare active planet that doesn't generate its own magnetic field internally. This planet is really about as inviting as a mouthful of razor wire.

NASA's Magellan spacecraft collected images of the planet's surface between 1990 and 1992, and researchers recently searched that data to study the possible activity of the volcanoes in the terrain.

New research has identified 37 structures on the second planet from the sun that appear to be massive, active volcanoes, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Venus' youthful appearance could be the result of a ferocious bombardment by asteroids and comets, whose high-energy impacts superheated the planet's interior, a new study reports. Planetary ...

In the 1990s, data from the Magellan spacecraft revealed that Venus is a hellish world covered in volcanoes and lava flows. Before now, we didn't know whether this volcanic activity was ancient or ...

Recently, however, planetary scientists have made new discoveries about the geography of Venus, which suggest the planet has at least 85,000 volcanoes on its surface (and potentially even more smaller ...

Venus, the second planet from our Sun, vividly demonstrates why the greenhouse effect makes life impossible. With an average surface temperature of roughly 1000º F (500º C) under a toxic ...

Venus' atmosphere contains much higher levels of sulfur dioxide than on Earth. On our planet, the smelly, toxic gas is produced by volcanoes. [Planet Venus: Quiz Yourself on Venus Facts] ...

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 ...