For decades, Venus, often dubbed “Earth’s twin,” has been depicted as a barren, inhospitable world, its surface locked in an ...

Radar and gravity records from NASA’s Magellan orbiter show that Venus' surface is still shifting and is not geologically ...

High-density material in the mantle may be remains of a Mars-sized planet. John Timmer – Nov 1, 2023 2:19 pm | 42 Modeling has shown how material ejected from the Earth by a massive collision ...

An artist's impression of Venus 3quarks/iStock / Getty Images Plus. On Earth, convection occurs within the mantle—providing the driving force for plate tectonics—as well as within our planet's ...

Lava flows from Maat Mons, a volcano located on the planet Venus. Earth and Venus share many similarities. Both are rocky planets of roughly similar size and likely Venus has an inner core and ...

Large geological patterns on Venus, called Coronae, may provide answers to how the planet releases heat, according to a research study from scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Our planet has a hot core that heats the surrounding mantle, which carries that heat up to Earth’s rigid outer rocky layer, or lithosphere. The heat is then lost to space, cooling the uppermost ...

Venus, on the other hand, is a hot planet both inside and out. Surface temperatures reach 870°F, and its volcanoes and other surface features show clear signs of melting.