"We are not saying we have found signs of life on Venus," Clements told USA TODAY. "We are on the first step of a staircase at the top of which, if all the steps are passed, something might lead ...

New signs are pointing to potential life on Venus. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA Now, scientists, building on a discovery of the phosphine in its clouds four years ago, believe that the presence of that ...

Researchers’ detection of two gases, phosphine and ammonia, in the clouds of Venus raises speculation about possible life forms in the planet’s atmosphere.

The prospects of life on Venus seem rather low. But it's not zero. And long ago, before the greenhouse catastrophe, Venus was likely very similar to Earth.

As our search for life, or at least habitability, extends to distant exoplanets around other suns, Venus has lessons for us. It can help us understand rocky planets in the habitable zones of other ...

"We're trying to figure out how much mass is reaching Venus from Earth, and how many cells can that mass carry," Emma Guinan, first author of a paper on the topic and a researcher at the School of ...

Venus' wispy sulfuric acid clouds swirl prettily in this image from the Galileo spacecraft, taken in 1990. NASA By Lisa Grossman March 3, 2025 at 10:00 am ...

But these theories about the existence of life on Venus will take some time to prove. And we'll need a lot more information to make such a call a reality.

Venus may be a hellscape, but there’s a chance some forms of life could evolve there. A new MIT study has now found that the building blocks of life are surprisingly stable in highly ...