[Related: The hellish Venus surface in 5 vintage photos] Magellan changed that. Launched in 1989 and equipped with the finest radar that the technology of its time could offer, Magellan mapped ...

Venus is still alive. Scientists studying data sent home by NASA's Magellan spacecraft in the early 1990s say they have spotted volcanic activity on Venus. The discovery, announced in a paper ...

When scientists recently took a closer look at archival images of the surface of Venus, they discovered something new: evidence of volcanic activity on Earth’s “twin.” The NASA Magellan ...

Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus's surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research based on data gathered more than 30 years ago by NASA's Magellan mission.

NASA's Magellan mission is one of the most successful deep space missions of all time. The spacecraft provided the first and most complete image map of the surface of Venus, and the most ...

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 ...

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

A reappraisal of decades-old data suggests that strange circular formations on Venus could be volcanic “rings of fire” ...

A few alighted on its rocky surface. In 1990, NASA’s Magellan arrived in orbit around the second planet, using radar to peer through Venus’ clouds and map her tortured terrain for the first time.

The Magellan mission became the first one to image the entire surface of Venus before the spacecraft intentionally plunged into the planet’s hot, toxic atmosphere in 1994 to collect a final set ...