Now, a new study reveals something about Venus that many scientists have wondered: whether or not the planet has active volcanoes. The research, which was carried out by the Universities Space ...

a huge shield volcano that rises three miles above the surrounding plains. Planet Venus from NASA, Magellan Program. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images) “The estimates of how often ...

Therefore, the gases released by volcanoes on Venus are 6 percent water at most, unlike on Earth, where volcanic outgassing is mostly water vapor. This implies that the magma within Venus ...

Now, Venus is not as active as Earth, but it's more active than anywhere else we know that's Earth-like. The reason you see so many volcanoes on Venus is partly due to the fact that there's ...

So our moon has ‘lumps’ and ‘bumps’, then - in planetary order from the sun - Mercury has ‘ridges’ and ‘craters’, Venus has ‘clouds’ and ‘volcanoes’, the Earth has ‘life ...