When scientists recently took a closer look at archival images taken of the surface of Venus by the NASA Magellan spacecraft, they discovered something new: evidence of volcanic activity on Earth ...

A Magellan radar image of Maat Mons on Venus in 1991. Comparison of further images from the space probe showed it changing, potentially due to volcanic activity. NASA/JPL-Caltech.

(CNN) — When scientists recently took a closer look at archival images of the surface of Venus, they discovered something new: evidence of volcanic activity on Earth’s “twin.” The NASA ...

Scientists say data from more than 30 years ago shows the planet Venus is volcanic. NASA's Magellan spacecraft collected images of the planet's surface between 1990 and 1992, and researchers ...

“Venus is an enigmatic world, and Magellan teased so many possibilities,” said Jennifer Whitten, associate deputy principal investigator of VERITAS at Tulane University in New Orleans.

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 ...

Magellan, the fifth U.S. trip to Venus, launched from the space shuttle on May 4, 1989, on a mission to map the surface of the solar system’s hottest planet.

America reached out to embrace Venus Thursday night as the space probe Magellan was deployed from the shuttle Atlantis to begin a 15-month voyage to map Earth`s planetary twin.Marking America`s ...

The scientist compared tectonics on Venus to pack ice that shifts laterally relative to one another. Additionally, some deformation on the planet's surface looks "super" geologically young.