For decades, when people have imagined alien life, their minds have drifted to Mars or distant exoplanets far beyond our solar system. Venus rarely gets a mention, mostly because it seems completely ...

Scientists have spotted two gases in Venus's atmosphere that may be the fingerprints of life on our hostile neighbor. Phosphine gas and ammonia gas have been detected in the planet's thick, hot ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Is there life on Venus? A new space mission led by the U.K.

The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the planet's clouds. Reading time 2 minutes A UK-based mission is aiming to settle, ...

Data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter is used in an undated composite image of the planet Venus. [Reuters] Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic ...

Scientists have given a stark warning to anyone hoping that Venus might once have been home to alien life: stop. For decades, astronomers have speculated that our closest neighbour might once have ...