Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

Future missions to Venus could also supply additional data on the density and temperature of the planet's crust, which could ...

Convection processes beneath Venus' scorched surface may help explain the planet's many volcanoes, a new study reports.

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

On Earth, convection currents churn through the mantle (the layer that lies beneath the crust), causing tectonic plates to move around the planet's surface and triggering geological activity like ...

On Earth, convection deep in the mantle provides the energy that drives ... These polygons are formed by slow convection currents in a 4 km-thick layer of solid nitrogen ice.