Hints Of Life On Venus
Scientists have detected a gas on Venus called phosphine, which could be a sign of alien life in the Green Planet’s clouds. It’s still too early to say for sure that Venus hosts lifeforms, but the discovery opens up a lot of questions about what’s happening on Earth’s neighbor.
The compound was discovered in a layer of clouds on Venus, where temperatures are fairly close to those on Earth’s surface. Phosphine is exciting because of where it comes from. It’s either manufactured by humans or it’s a natural biproduct of life. Here’s more with host Loren Grush in this episode of Verge Science.
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