Related: Venus volcanoes may be powered by long-ago violent impacts. ... The newly spotted lava flows appear to have oozed out from the western slopes of Sif Mons, a huge shield volcano, ...

This isn’t a scene from a science fiction novel—it’s Venus, our cosmic neighbor, ... The Volcanoes of Venus: What They Could Teach Us About Earth’s Fiery Past.

Venus has several shield volcanoes that are larger (reaching hundreds of kilometers) but less steep than the volcanoes on Earth. The planet also has numerous sites with elliptical patterns ...

Venus appears to be more volcanically active than previously known, ... "Both Sif Mons and the volcanoes in Niobe Planitia are shield volcanoes, characterized by broad, ...

Besides the towering shield volcanoes and pancake dome volcanoes on Venus, the planet also has huge canali—dried up lava channels—that show lava did flow on the planet’s surface in the ...

Earth and Venus can sometimes be seen as twins. The planets, second and third from our Sun, are close to the same in size (7,521 mile diameter for Venus, 7,918 mile diameter for Earth), nearly ...

The slopes of Sif Mons, a large shield volcano on Venus, show signs of relatively recent lava flows (arrow) in archival data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, which orbited the planet in the ...

By using modern software to peruse Magellan’s data, scientists have now found two unambiguous lava flows: one tripping down the flank of Sif Mons, a broad shield volcano, and another winding its ...

The same uncertainty has been true for Venus, until recently; while scientists previously believed that Venus’ volcanoes were inactive, new evidence is starting to push back against this notion. A ...

Evidence continues to assemble that Venus is more geologically active than previously thought. Planetary scientists scouring decades-old data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft have found signs of lava ...

The newly spotted lava flows appear to have oozed out from the western slopes of Sif Mons, a huge shield volcano, and Niobe Planitia, a relatively flat region home to many volcanoes.