DNA analysis has revealed that 26 novel species of "extremophile" bacteria were lurking in a clean room that housed NASA's ...

A new study by planetary scientists at Brown University and the University of Bern in Switzerland casts doubt on one of the ...

Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, along with researchers in India and Saudi ...

A new study reports that 26 new bacterial species were found growing inside cleanrooms associated with NASA space missions.

Sterilizing robotic spacecraft to prevent contamination is one thing, but sterilizing human beings is impossible. We are ...

Chinese scientists report that they’ve found a novel bacteria on the Tiangong space station, but can’t confirm if it evolved ...

But the latest research tells a different story. Using machine learning and one of the most comprehensive datasets ever ...

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds ...

NASA 's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale Crater this February. The agency has since converted that data into a ...