A study suggests that Venus' volcanic "pancake domes" push the planet's crust down, forming bulges toward the surface. This could explain a decades-old mystery.

The researchers from the University of Alaska and the California Institute of Technology found two large volcanoes in the Atla Regio region of Venus – the highlands of the planet. Ozza and Maat ...

Less than a month ago, scientists were unsure if Venus had active volcanoes. Now, a new map reveals that there could be at least 85,000 of them covering the surface of the hellish planet.

These missions could answer long-standing questions about how Venus’s volcanoes work and what they mean for the planet’s past and future. Each discovery will bring us closer to understanding ...

suggesting the planet could be as geologically active as Earth, with volcanoes possibly spewing on its surface as you read this. Related: Venus volcanoes may be powered by long-ago violent impacts ...

That’s nearly 50 times as many volcanoes as past surveys counted ... Such a thorough inventory of volcanism on Venus could offer clues about the planet’s interior, such as hot spots of ...

Related: Planet Venus: 20 interesting facts about the scorching world Scientists have long known about lava flows on Venus from volcanoes that erupted a few million years ago. Although around ...

One of Venus' lingering geologic mysteries involves the innumerable volcanoes which pepper the planet's surface. Astronomers and planetary scientists were unsure if and how many were active ...

There are ~1,500 potentially active volcanoes on Earth as well, with likely ten times more volcanic edifices that might have been active in the past ten million years. A map of volcanic features on ...

Venus is a searing inferno ... zooming in from a city block to a single building). If there are volcanoes erupting across the planet, VERITAS might help scientists spot the changes that they ...

In contrast, Venus is a toasty world, with surface temperatures that can hit 870 degrees Fahrenheit. In fact, volcanoes and other surface features on the planet clearly exhibit signs of melting.