Chofen

Chofen is an unusually small hydrogen-helium gas giant with traces of sulphur and hydrocarbons in the atmosphere. The Alliance surveyor ship, Barruta, provided inconclusive evidence of hydrocarbon life in the atmosphere over 1000 meters below the surface where the hydrogen is compressed into a liquid state.

Proof of life in the atmosphere would prove many long standing theories. Unfortunately only a probe with an extremely expensive mass effect field generator could survive the crushing pressure long enough to send back any useful data - and the probe would be lost in the process. Simple expense makes investigation doubtful.