Grain transported in cargo ships usually undergoes fumigation to kill pests − a process that often uses toxic phosphine gas. bfk92/E+ via Getty Images In 1980, two children and 29 crew members aboard ...

Venus is often called Earth’s sister planet, a neighboring twin of similar density and size. But the resemblance stops there. As the hottest planet in our solar system, the choking Venusian atmosphere ...

Traces of a rare molecule known as phosphine have been found in the hellish, heavily acidic atmosphere of Venus, astronomers announced Monday — providing a tantalizing clue about the possibility of ...

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Scientists say they have found more evidence of gas molecules on Venus that could, among other things, point to the possibility of life on the planet. Venus, the closest planet to Earth, has an ...

The planet Venus is in so many ways an enigma. It’s a sister planet to Earth and also within relatively easy reach of our instruments and probes, yet we nevertheless know precious little about what is ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t expecting to find one of the universe’s strangest chemical ...

Venus, in many ways, is the planet most similar to Earth in the Solar System. With a comparable mass and radius, it may have been watery, wet, and as similarly life-friendly as Earth is for hundreds ...

Clara Sousa-Silva spent years figuring out how to detect phosphine on different planets. In September, she was part of the research team that found phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus. But her ...

Astronomers spotted the chemical signature of phosphine, a gas that on Earth is only associated with life. Venus is a very challenging environment for life of any kind. The new discovery was published ...

The research team of Xumu Zhang and Genqiang Chen at Southern University of Science and Technology has achieved a new breakthrough in the synthesis and application of benzoxoxetine ligands. They ...