But prior research has also shown that the clouds covering Venus are not made up of water; instead, they are constituted mostly of sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is a mineral acid made up of sulfur ...

The surface of Venus is comparable to the bottom of Earth’s oceans with one major difference: Venus has the hottest planetary surface in the solar system. National Corporate funding for NOVA is ...

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 ...

are stable in concentrated sulfuric acid, advancing the notion that the Venus atmosphere environment may be able to support complex chemicals needed for life. "We do not know if the origin of life ...

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 ...