Venus has long been assumed to be uninhabitable: its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere is swirling with yellow clouds of strong sulfuric acid, and its surface is something out of a nightmare ...

A new MIT study has now found that the building blocks of life are surprisingly stable in highly concentrated sulfuric acid – which Venus’ clouds happen to be made of. Thick cloud cover gave ...

Venus' sulfuric acid clouds cool enough to host RNA and DNA bases, says study Jun 14, 2023 Life's building blocks are surprisingly stable in Venus-like conditions: Study ...

But prior research has also shown that the clouds covering Venus are not made up of water; instead, they are constituted mostly of sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is a mineral acid made up of sulfur ...

Punishing conditions in the clouds of Venus could be home to a DNA-like molecule capable of forming genes in life very different to that on Earth, according to a new study.

"We're trying to look into the possibility that sulfuric acid droplets could host a biochemistry, not our personal biochemistry, but a different biochemistry." Hellish Venus is blistering hot ...

Ammonia on Venus would make for an even more surprising ... sulfur dioxide that they become extremely concentrated sulfuric acid — a highly corrosive substance that can be deadly to humans ...

Venus might once have had the same amount of ... The dramatic distribution is believed to be caused by a water and sulfuric acid cycle in the atmosphere. Hydrated sulfuric acid forms just above ...

In this new article, twenty amino acids were exposed to the concentrations of sulfuric acid usually found on Venus, at 98% and 81%, with the rest being water. Of these, 11 were unchanged after 4 ...

Venus, the closest planet to Earth, has an atmosphere similar to ours, but much more hot and full of corrosive sulfuric acid. Researchers in England announced last week that powerful space ...

Venus is often described as a hellscape. The surface temperature breaches the melting point of lead, and though its atmosphere is dominated by carbon dioxide, it contains enough sulfuric acid to ...