Venus may be more volcanically active than first thought. The Sif Mons area on Venus with the active volcanic region highlighted in red and (inset) an image of Venus taken by NASA's Mariner 10 ...

What scientists can lean from discovery of potential life on Venus 04:03. Radar images of the surface of Venus appear to show fresh lava flows, suggesting active volcanoes on the planet.

Thus Venus joins Earth and Io as being volcanically active rocky bodies in our solar system.” In other words, the volcanism club has expanded its membership roll. Read more ...

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 Magellan orbiter ...

So it's clear that Venus is volcanically active, but it's not clear exactly how active. HERRICK: The time between eruptions could be months, years or tens of thousands of years.

Confirming that Venus is volcanically active is especially useful given upcoming missions to Venus, says Mason, such as the European Space Agency’s EnVision and NASA’s VERITAS satellites.

Venus appears to have volcanic activity, ... “We can now say that Venus is presently volcanically active in the sense that there are at least a few eruptions per year,” he said.

Surface of the planet is changing in ways that suggest it has volcanic eruptions and lava flows Venus is ‘geologically active’, revolutionary new evidence suggests Skip to main content ...

This isn’t a scene from a science fiction novel—it’s Venus, our cosmic neighbor, ... and one of the most volcanically active worlds in the solar system. For centuries, ...

Data from an old NASA spacecraft reveals a volcano erupted on the surface of Venus in 1991, a new study in Science says. Volcanic activity on Venus spotted in radar images, scientists say | WVXU ...

“We can now say that Venus is presently volcanically active in the sense that there are at least a few eruptions per year,” said Robert Herrick, a research professor at University of Alaska ...