Once the probe passes through the thick layer of clouds ... map will allow planetary scientists to understand how the ...

Scientists now think there could be microscopic life floating in the clouds of Venus. Their theory is surprising, considering how inhospitable the surface of Venus is. But in the clouds ...

"The spectral characteristics of the Venus clouds, including the strong UV absorption ... while VERITAS will map the surface in more detail. In the meantime, the data we have is all the data ...

It's an extraordinary possibility - the idea that living organisms are floating in the clouds of Planet Venus. But this is what astronomers are now considering after detecting a gas in the ...

"It could be that if Venus went through a warm, wet phase in the past then as runaway global warming took effect [life] would have evolved to survive in the only niche left to it — the clouds ...

It's not possible for life to exist in the clouds of Venus. It's simply too dry, says an international research team led from Queen's University Belfast, UK. Hopes had been raised last year that ...

The other, a mission called VERITAS, will map the planet's surface in unprecedented ... a September study suggested the clouds surrounding Venus could harbor microbial aliens.

A study published on Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy found that Venus' clouds contained traces of phosphine: an extremely flammable, poisonous, and corrosive gas also found on Earth.

Chris Jones from the Langley Research Center that came up with the city on Venus, said that Cloud City would be a great practice run of going to Mars.