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Prospects for life on Venus fade — but aren’t dead yet

Debate continues over controversial report of phosphine in the planet’s atmosphere, as researchers reanalyse data and find a fainter signal.
  1. Alexandra Witze
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Signs of the gas phosphine in Venus’s atmosphere have faded — but they’re still there, according to a new data analysis.

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Nature 587, 532 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03258-5

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