On September 14, 2020, astronomers reported identifying potential life on Venus. Astronomers looked at Venus's atmosphere and cloud structures with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) observatory in Chile. They found phosphine, a poisonous gas they determined would be produced by life on a rocky planet like Venus.

It's been more than four centuries since Galileo first recorded his observations of the object in the night sky known as Venus. Fittingly, it was named by the Romans visible because it is the brightest object in the sky. Venus wasn't officially a planet until much later, when science and astronomy would catch up with Galileo. T

Today, science can definitively state there is potential life on Venus, a planet not ours. So why have these Venus residents not paid us, Earthlings, a visit? As far as astronomers can determine, the type of life on Venus can only live in other environments like that of Venus.

Venus still captivates our imaginations, mainly because anyone who can see stars in the night sky can see it; you just need to know where and when to look. While objects in the night sky seem white to the naked eye, Venus appears greenish-yellow because of its atmosphere of carbon dioxide and sulfur.