A new study suggests Earth may have been sending tiny hitchhikers to Venus for billions of years. Researchers found that asteroid impacts could launch microbes into space, where some might survive the journey and end up suspended in Venus’ clouds. If future missions detect life there, there’s a surprising chance it didn’t originate on Venus at all—it may have come from Earth.
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