For North Americans, this is an eye-catching sight, visible even from brightly lit cities.

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its rocket-assisted toss to the cloud-veiled world. Major elements of that failed craft ...

Massive structures on Venus could be a result of ongoing volcanic activity, researchers find out through radar data.

A new study reveals fresh signs of geological activity on Venus — clues that the planet's mysterious surface is still ...

New research strengthens the case that Venus, long considered a geologically stagnant world, may be more Earth-like in its ...

Mountains rise, volcanoes spew, and Earth itself quakes as the crust constantly remakes itself in the ceaseless cycle of ...

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

New research reveals that Venus may still be geologically alive, with massive circular features pointing to hot plumes ...

Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 reentered Earth's atomosphere Saturday morning after 53 years in orbit during a failed attempt ...

The spacecraft suffered an engine anomaly that left it stuck in Earth's orbit for decades, and now it's slated for an ...

Using radar data from a NASA mission launched more than three decades ago, scientists have found fresh clues suggesting that ...

This is a process that controls the flow of carbon through our planet and stabilizes its climate; were it not for plate tectonics, Earth might not be habitable at all. “Venus works differently ...