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Venus, often written off as a geologically dead world, is far more active beneath its blistering surface than previously ...
NASA researchers have discovered evidence of tectonic activity on Venus by re-examining decades-old radar data. The findings ...
The recent detection of a gas in a distant plant has been linked to life forms has sparked debate among scientists.
Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus's surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research ...
New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth's hotter twin, according to new ...
Researchers studying archival radar data from NASA’s Magellan mission have uncovered compelling signs that tectonic activity ...
Launched over 50 years ago, this piece of the Kosmos 482 mission was designed to survive the punishing conditions on Venus.
Offering incredibly high temperatures, crushing pressure, and a thick mix of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, the atmosphere ...
A probe launched from the Soviet Union more than five decades ago has plummeted back to Earth, splashing down in the Indian ...
The Soviet Venus probe Kosmos 482 is expected to fall to Earth on May 10, but exactly when and where remains unknown.
This is another similarity the planet could be sharing with Earth, which is continually renewed by the constant shifting and recycling of massive sections of crust, called tectonic plate.
Cosmos (or Kosmos) 482's orbit has slowly brought it closer to our planet since 1972, and now it's on the cusp of plummeting ...