Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

Convection processes beneath Venus' scorched surface may help explain the planet's many volcanoes, a new study reports.

New research suggests that Venus could be much more geologically active than previously thought. A groundbreaking study by ...

This air is in turn heated, expands becomes less dense and rises. The process continues, a convection current is set up and heat is transferred through the air and hence through the room.

The paper was published in Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors. Chhavi Jain, a postdoctoral fellow at WashU, is a co-author. Convection, a well-known process in geology, occurs when heated ...

Convection is the flow of heat energy from a region of high temperature to a region of low temperature by movement of a fluid. Convection only occurs in fluids (liquids and gases). Convection in a ...

Often times, thunderstorms pop up to to warm air. Meteorologist Sara Blue explains how this happens. TYLER, Texas — ...

Venus, however, is a different story. Its crust is thicker—anywhere from 30 to 90 kilometers—and its surface is extremely hot ...