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Ammonia and phosphine are 'biomarkers' that are indicative of life on Venus .
They were detected in the upper parts of the planet's clouds where it's too cold for life to exist.
Phosphine , a colourless gas that smells like garlic, is naturally produced on Earth by certain microorganisms in the absence of oxygen.
It follows the original detection of phosphine in Venus ' clouds in 2020 although the findings were soon discredited by sceptics.
Other scientists claimed not to be able to find the same signal and members of Greaves' team admitted to a calibration error and downgraded the strength of their claims.
Now, using the James Clerk Maxwell telescope once more, Dr Clements has found phosphine again, and he thinks it may get destroyed by sunlight during the day .
Dr Robert Massey , deputy executive director at the Royal Astronomical Society , called the findings 'very exciting'.
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