A bored scientist in a laboratory can make for an amusing, if not dangerous, combination. Of course, like all good pyromaniacs, some scientists like to burn things. The difference is that scientists ...

A team of chemists and planetary scientists from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Nanoplanet Consulting and MIT has found evidence that a form of life that uses sulfuric acid as a liquid medium could ...

A new study supports the longstanding idea that if life exists, it might make a home in Venus' clouds. The study's authors identified a chemical pathway by which life could neutralize Venus' acidic ...

The Danakil Depression in northwest Ethiopia has the sulfuric acid-richest environments on Earth. One of the big questions in astrobiology is whether life can use solvents other than water to ...

It’s hard to imagine a more inhospitable world than our closest planetary neighbor. With an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide, and a surface hot enough to melt lead, Venus is a scorched and ...