Venus is not exactly the place one might think to look for extraterrestrial life, given how hostile it is not only to terrestrial lifeforms, but to our technology. We haven't explored Venus as much as Mars because it eats robots.
Yet, scientists have found an unexpectedly high level of phosphine at levels in the hellworld's atmosphere that might be habitable...with a lot of work. (Derek Kunsken's novel The House of Styx goes into what life on Venus might be like in fascinating detail).
This level of phosphine only has one explanation that we know of: Life.
However, given how crazy Venus is, there may be an explanation that we don't know of. Even that, though, would tell us things about the universe we don't yet understand.
Oh, and you don't want to get close to this stuff. It's lethally toxic, not to mention vile smelling.
Venus probably hates us.
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