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

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 ...

"We are finding that building blocks of life on Earth are stable in sulfuric acid, and this is very intriguing for the idea ...

or in the acidic clouds of Venus. But a different chemistry, which built all the requisite pieces out of different materials, might have a shot. Imagine cells that use methane, sulfuric acid, or ...

Venus is not an obvious place to look for life. Its globe-spanning cloud decks are made of sulfuric acid, “a feature that was long believed to be sterile for any organic chemistry,” said MIT ...

This isn't as much of a problem on Venus, however. After all, the entire planet is covered with clouds. Bad news is, they're toxic. These clouds rain sulfuric acid that's so corrosive it would eat ...

rich in carbon dioxide (CO2), is riddled with clouds of sulfuric acid, and the extreme surface temperatures there, which can reach 460 degrees Celsius (860 degrees Fahrenheit), make Venus the ...

Venus hasn’t received nearly the same attention ... never mind the intense atmospheric pressure and sulfuric acid clouds. With this in mind, NASA has been experimenting with the concept of ...

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.

Based on physics models of how solar systems form, sulfuric acid should be fairly common on rocky planets like Venus, and it's definitely good at dissolving things. But surprisingly, some of the ...