Venus could harbor life, but Jupiter prevented it

 

Jupiter altered its orbit and caused Venus to have a dramatic change in its climate due to the effects of gravitational interaction, when Jupiter got closer to the Sun, which caused Venus to get closer to it. But the truth is that before that happens, Venus could host life for more than 3,000 million years, possessing oceans, enjoying a temperate climate, with blue skies and large amounts of water running and forming seas and rivers throughout its surface. We know, for example, that its current surface is relatively young, "only" between 300 and 700 million years ago, and data collected by space missions that have visited it so far suggest that its atmosphere once had much more water. of which it contains today. For all we know, Venus could have harbored abundant liquid water on its surface, and had plate tectonics and a mild, stable climate. There are several theories that try to explain what led to the drastic transformation of Venus. Some point to a gradual warming of the Sun, which would have overheated the planet after allowing it to enjoy a brief period of habitability; others speak of the sudden appearance from the interior, about 4,000 million years ago, of an entire ocean of magma and greenhouse gases that would have changed it completely, leaving it in its current state. When Jupiter began to form as a planet, about 4.5 billion years ago, it moved closer and farther from the sun "due to interactions with the disk from which the planets are formed, as well as with the other giant planets." This constant movement in turn affected Venus. Its ability to disrupt the orbits of other planets is due to the fact that Jupiter has a mass that is two and a half times that of all the other planets in our solar system combined. Jupiter's motion was probably what led Venus to its inhospitable Actual state. 
Source: University of California at Riverside / Planetary Science Journal