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 ...

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

(CNN) — 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 ...

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 ...

Japan’s Akatsuki mission officially ended in September 2025 after more than a decade of operations and a final year of ...

Are you kidding? With a surface temperature nearly twice as hot as your highest oven setting, clouds composed of battery acid (sulfuric acid) and a toxic carbon ...

In the year 2100, humanity might not be surviving on Mars at all - we might be living above Venus instead. While Venus’ surface is an uninhabitable furnace, its upper atmosphere hides a narrow band ...

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 ...

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