Alien lifeforms 'unlike anything we've ever seen' may be living in the clouds of Venus, a new study has claimed.
With an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide and a surface hot enough to melt lead, it is hard to imagine a more inhospitable world than our closest planetary neighbour.
But now scientists think the planet could be becoming 'more habitable' after identifying a chemical pathway by which life could neutralise Venus' acidic environment, creating a self-sustaining, habitable pocket in the clouds.
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