Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venus’s clouds are rich in water and iron, challenging old models of its harsh, acidic atmosphere. (CREDIT: JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Kevin ...

Four years ago, the unexpected discovery in the clouds of Venus of a gas that on Earth signifies life — phosphine — faced controversy, earning rebukes in subsequent observations that failed to match ...

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A strange, gargantuan wall of acid-filled clouds on our neighboring planet Venus has been spotted by a hobbyist astronomer. This structure, known as the Venus Cloud Discontinuity, is around 5,000 ...

MYSTERY WIRE – Astronomers have found a potential signal of life high in the atmosphere of our nearest neighboring planet, Venus. They caution they aren’t certain yet, calling it hints of bizarre ...

A gas on Earth has also been detected in the atmosphere of Venus.While it may not signify the presence of life, the "entirely surprising" discovery of phosphine could hint at unknown processes ...

Japan ends the Akatsuki mission after more than a decade studying Venusian weather, revealing super-rotation, giant gravity waves.

This is what it would be like to walk on the surface of Venus. The surface of Venus is comparable to the bottom of Earth’s oceans with one major difference: Venus has the hottest planetary surface in ...

Venus has long been called a dry, hellish planet veiled in clouds of liquid acid. But new study of old spacecraft data tells a different story—one that’s reshaping what scientists believed they knew ...

The clouds of Venus are made of droplets, Clements said, but they’re not water droplets. There is water in them but also so much dissolved sulfur dioxide that they become extremely concentrated ...