The very first visible-light images of Venus' surface from space have been captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe, and it could help researchers piece together the mysteries of the distant planet ...

Instead, the only photos of Venus’ surface we have to look at were captured by Soviet-era spacecraft over 40 years ago. Venus is the second planet from the Sun, residing right between Earth and ...

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 ...

For decades, Venus, often dubbed “Earth’s twin,” has been depicted as a barren, inhospitable world, its surface locked in an unchanging, oven-hot state. Yet, recent data from NASA’s ...

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Much of the brittle, upper crust of Venus is broken into fragments that jostle and move – and the slow churning ...

In comparison, Mars has 15.1% the volume of Earth and 28.4% the surface area, with a surface gravity of 3.72076 m/s 2 which is just over twice that of the Earth’s Moon (1.62 m/s2).

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.

Here’s how it works. This image shows a 684-mile-wide (1,100 kilometers) false-color radar view of a lowland region on Venus called Lavinia Planitia.

Something is moving on Venus -- or rather beneath the planet's surface. It's not life, but it does suggest our neighboring world is a little less static than many previously believed.

By any measure, Venus is a hellscape: crushing pressures, a toxic atmosphere, and surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead. It's like a scene lifted straight from Dante's Inferno.

Much of the brittle, upper crust of Venus is broken into fragments that jostle and move—and the slow churning of Venus' mantle beneath the surface might be responsible. My colleagues and I arrived at ...