Put simply, phosphine shouldn’t be in the Venusian ... intense lightning strikes, tectonic plates rubbing together, bismuth rain, and cosmic dust. Based on the team’s calculations, none ...

"Whether it's in penguin poop or badger guts, we don't know why bacteria make phosphine, but they do." New preliminary evidence for phosphine and ammonia in Venus's atmosphere deepens the mystery ...

Intriguing molecule phosphine spotted in planet’s clouds ... including things like continents and mountains. And importantly, plate tectonics on Earth also led to the chemistry that stabilized ...

Researchers in England announced last week that powerful space telescopes revealed new signs of phosphine gas in Venus' atmosphere, a finding that has been fiercely debated in recent years.

The data, the researchers say, contains even stronger proof that phosphine is present in the clouds of Venus, our closest planetary neighbor. Sometimes called Earth’s evil twin, the planet is ...