#CoSoAstronomy

The detection of phosphine in Venus' clouds is a big deal, and here's how we can find out if it really is life.
by Paul K. Byrne

So we planetary scientists are faced with two possibilities: Either there is some sort of life in the Venus clouds, generating phosphine, or there is unexplained and unexpected chemistry taking place there. How do we find out which it is?

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-phosphine-venus-clouds-big-life.html

Paper:

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2018.1954