Is Venus Alive? A Churning Crust Could Be Powering Its 85,000 Volcanoes

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with convection, a process that helps move heat and may explain the planet’s tens of thousands of volcanoes. This overturns assumptions that crustal convection only happens deep in planetary interiors like Earth’s mantle. The findings offer […] Read More