Venus, often referred to as Earth’s “twin” due to its similar size and proximity, has long been dismissed as a potential ...

NASA’s boldest plan yet to find alien life in our solar system targets the most unlikely place: Venus. With its scorching ...

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 ...

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Scientists have long debated whether Venus might be volcanically active. In the early 1990s, cloud-penetrating radar on the Magellan orbiter revealed a surface studded with volcano-like mountains.

Venus, on the other hand, is a hot planet both inside and out. Surface temperatures reach 870 degrees Fahrenheit, and its volcanoes and other surface features show clear signs of melting.

Volcanoes, however, are a lot more likely. One reason is that they’re known sources of SO2, at least on Earth. Another is that Venus is peppered with them — hundreds upon hundreds of volcanic ...

Venus is home to volcanoes that have been active in the recent past, according to some new imagery obtained by an ESA probe. Read the whole story ...

NASA: Flying by a Venus volcano Topography and heat data suggesting signs of recent lava flows on the surface of Venus are revealed in this 360-degree view of the planet's volcanic peak Idunn Mons.

This radar image captured by the Magellan probe shows a region on Venus' surface approximately 180 miles (300 kilometers) across, and located in a vast plain to the south of Aphrodite Terra. The ...