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  1. Sep 23, 2019 · The hellish planet Venus may have had a perfectly habitable environment for 2 to 3 billion years after the planet formed, suggesting life would have had ample time to emerge there, according to a ...

  2. Mar 28, 2024 · However, scientists suspect that any life that might have emerged in Venus' hellish environment could be found wafting in its noxious clouds, which are cooler than the planet's surface and could ...

  3. Until the mid-20th century, the surface environment of Venus was believed to be similar to Earth, hence it was widely believed that Venus could harbor life. In 1870, the British astronomer Richard A. Proctor said the existence of life on Venus was impossible near its equator, [11] but possible near its poles.

  4. Sep 14, 2020 · “A long time ago, Venus is thought to have oceans, and was probably habitable like Earth,” Sousa-Silva says. “As Venus became less hospitable, life would have had to adapt, and they could now be in this narrow envelope of the atmosphere where they can still survive.

  5. Jul 28, 2023 · Many more have tried and failed, but even the successful missions were only able to operate for hours at most before being destroyed by the planet’s extreme conditions. This doesn’t give spacecraft enough time to do things like collect and analyze rock samples to look for microscopic fossils. Does life exist on Venus now?

  6. Sep 14, 2020 · There is also the question of how life could survive in an environment like Venus’. Although there is a region in the Venusian atmosphere, between about 50 and 60 kilometres altitude, where the temperature and atmospheric pressure are Earth-like, there is still the sulphuric acid and near-total lack of water for any putative life to have to deal with.

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  8. Oct 28, 2023 · This discovery "bolsters" the possibility that microbial life once existed on Venus and further showcases how similar Earth — in volume, mass, density, size and now tectonic plates — is to the ...