Earth’s Biggest Threats: Earth, the only home we know won’t last forever. Some big, dangerous things could happen that might ...

The mission’s primary goals are to investigate the atmospheric chemistry of Venus and search for signs of microbial life.

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But Venus's clouds are utterly hostile to life as we know it on Earth. So our latest study seeks to explore the potential of concentrated sulfuric acid as a solvent that could support the complex ...

Recently, a group of scientists claimed they found possible signs of life on a planet called K2-18b. The news made headlines. Researchers said... Exoplanet K2-18b: Home to alien life or noisy data?

Venus is not an obvious place to look for life. Its globe-spanning cloud decks are made of sulfuric acid, “a feature that was long believed to be sterile for any organic chemistry,” said MIT ...

Based on physics models of how solar systems form, sulfuric acid should be fairly common on rocky planets like Venus, and it's definitely good at dissolving things. But surprisingly, some of the ...

Venus may never have hosted oceans on its surface ... as well as being permanently shrouded in thick, toxic clouds of sulfuric acid. In their study, the scientists found the planet's interior ...

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 ...

Scientists say there is no other natural chemical process that could produce the amounts of phosphine and ammonia.

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 ...