A recent paper suggests that if astrobiologists want to make an educated guess about what life on Venus might look like, they ...

Venus is a Victim of a Rampant Greenhouse Effect Venus's atmosphere is made mostly of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse ...

In this new article, twenty amino acids were exposed to the concentrations of sulfuric acid usually found on Venus, at 98% and 81%, with the rest being water. Of these, 11 were unchanged after 4 ...

Strangely, the key is water. Sulfuric acid on Earth is usually found mixed ... and they also make up parts of cell walls. Aliens on Venus would use some other type of molecule to do the same ...

we learned that those clouds in fact are not made out of water but out of concentrated sulfuric acid - battery acid — and that conditions on the surface of Venus are not at all Earth-like.

It rains sulphuric acid (battery acid) that never reaches the ground. Crescent Venus Gary Boyle The clouds also produce the greenhouse effect, trapping the solar energy and locking it in.

Imagine cells that use methane, sulfuric acid, or even molten ... Related: Alien life could thrive in Venus' acidic clouds, new study hints Here on Earth, water fits the bill perfectly, but ...