Venus is not even close to being hospitable to life. But that's not the end of the story. This planet has by ...

in the clouds of Venus. The announcement sparked a heated debate and a surge of follow-up studies, which have generally failed to spot the intriguing molecule in the Venusian atmosphere.

"The patterns and level of absorption shown by the combination of these two mineral phases are consistent with the dark UV-patches observed in Venusian clouds," paper co-author Clancy Zhijian ...

Throw in clouds of sulfuric acid and a suffocating atmosphere of 96% carbon dioxide, and Venusian real estate is starting to look pretty cheap. But there’s a major problem that life might face ...

And that brings us full circle to those sulfuric acid-laden Venusian clouds. Venus is often called Earth's sister planet, but is it also a celestial companion of cozy microbes? "These findings ...

The concentrated sulfuric acid in the venusian clouds was thought to destroy these critical molecules, but they have now been shown to persist for up to two weeks in these conditions. This ...

Hot enough to melt metal and blanketed by a toxic, crushing atmosphere, Venus ranks among the most hostile locations in the solar system. But astronomers have reported the detection of two gases that ...