Venus — a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes — may be even more geologically active near its surface than previously thought. New calculations by researchers at Washington ...

Convection processes beneath Venus' scorched surface may help explain the planet's many volcanoes, a new study reports. Venus, the hottest planet in the solar system, is estimated to have 85,000 ...

A team of Japanese researchers hopes to drill through the Earth's crust and reach the mantle directly. This would be a major achievement; our efforts to reach the mantle to-date have not been ...

The Earth formed 4.6 billion years ago and has been continuously changing ever since. For instance, the Himalayas continue to ...

Mars has northern and southern hemispheres like Earth, but their defining characteristics are markedly different, a phenomenon known as Martian dichotomy. The Southern Highlands are older, higher in ...

Among the inner solar system, Earth is the only planet that experiences plate tectonics. A new study, using convection models, shows that Earth’s collision with the protoplanet Theia some 4.5 billion ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Researchers at Oregon State University have completed a mammoth project to create a 3-D map of electromagnetic energy in the Earth's crust across the continental U.S. What began as ...