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In 2020, a team of researchers found something surprising in the high clouds of Venus. Earth-based telescopes detected the spectral signature of phosphine, a simple molecule that should have no business persisting in those extremely acidic clouds. Cautiously excited, the researchers wrote that the phosphine could be the result of “unknown photochemistry or geochemistry”—or, they noted almost coyly, “possibly life.”

In a startling discovery, microplastics have now been found in clouds enveloping the two iconic Japanese peaks, Mount Fuji and Mount Oyama. This revelation adds to the growing list of locations that these miniscule plastic particles have been found, including in the ocean depths, Antarctic ice, and, more alarmingly, within human bodily fluids and tissues.