Venus’ surface is a hellish place with temperatures well over 800 degrees Fahrenheit but it could’ve been much more like Earth today, with oceans and a moderate climate A team of astronomers made a blockbuster claim in the fall. Clara Sousa-Silva, a research scientist at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and one of the authors of the Nature …
Last month, the science world was stunned and excited when Nature Astronomy published a paper indicating that the atmosphere of Venus appeared to contain trace amounts of phosphine, a gas associated with anaerobic bacteria on Earth that would be near-impossible to produce in any other fashion on Venus. However, the TEXES spectrographic data looked at the cloud tops of Venus, …
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