The soon-to-reenter Soviet Cosmos 482 Venus probe is getting increased attention by satellite trackers – and new imagery ...

Venus—the planet closest to us ... gather its information without human supervision. The pictures and other data will arrive at Earth only after the lander has finished its work on the surface.

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions ...

Traditionally, scientists believed that crustal convection occurred only in the deep mantles of planets ... of volcanoes found on Venus. For example, recent radar images of Venus from NASA ...

Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus's surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research ...

Mysterious features on the surface of Venus ... planet, and they are thought to be formed when material rises from the planet's mantle and pushes against the crust above. The findings not only ...

New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth's hotter twin, according to new ...