A collapsed lava tube detected in 30-year-old radar data from Venus may be part of a much wider network of underground caves.

A vast underground tunnel known as a lava tube, formed from ancient volcanic activity, has been discovered Venus.

A fresh examination of radar data for Venus obtained by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s indicates the presence of a large underground cavity created by a lava flow, the first subsurface ...

What new insights about lava tubes on Venus can scientists gain about the planet’s formation, evolution, and present volcanic activity? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications ...

Researchers had only hypothesized the existence of underground lava tubes on Venus—until now. Using decades-old radar data, a team of scientists in Italy has discovered an empty, subsurface lava tube ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 10, 1958, scientists at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory bounced radar waves off of Venus. At the time, Venus was at a point ...

On February 10, 1958, scientists at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory bounced radar waves off of Venus. At the time, Venus was at a point in its orbit called inferior conjunction, where it is directly in ...