Volcanic caves are not just an Earth thing. Scientists have spotted signs of lava tubes on the Moon and Mars. Now, ...

Researchers had only hypothesized the existence of underground lava tubes on Venus —until now.

Venus has long been painted as a featureless, molten world, its surface blurred by a suffocating atmosphere and crushing pressure. Now planetary scientists have pierced that veil, identifying a vast ...

A fresh examination of radar data for Venus obtained by NASA's Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s indicates the presence of a large underground cavity created by a lava flow, the first subsurface ...

In some ways, Venus is very much like Earth: it’s a rocky planet with a comparable size, density, and bulk composition. But ...

While we have sent probes billions of kilometers into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our own ...

IN February, conversations reveal more than expected, momentum builds where there was once pause, and long-held hopes edge ...

After a year of attempting contact, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced Tuesday that its Akatsuki Venus climate orbiter spacecraft has died and is no longer responsive. This was ...

The surface of Venus is scoured with strange, quasi-circular features called coronae. Unlike anything seen on Earth today, they can stretch hundreds of miles in diameter, even going past the thousand ...

We’ve known for quite some time that molten rock gouged enormous tunnels into the surface of the Earth, the Moon, and Mars. In fact, scientists have proposed that the vast lava tubes under the surface ...

The takeaway: Little is understood about the geology of Venus, and recent findings suggest that the planet's subsurface processes may not follow the same patterns observed elsewhere. Future missions ...

The source of enigmatic circles on the surface of Earth’s closest relative in solar system revealed in new paper A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...