Elon Musk has made a lot of wild statements, but this one might top them all: "I'd like to die on Mars. Just not on impact." ...

IISc’s Aloke Kumar has led groundbreaking research around space habitation. In 2020, his lab developed ‘space bricks’ using ...

IISc Bengaluru team is developing a microbial experiment to test the bacteria’s growth patterns and behaviour in ...

Suppose humanity was faced with an extinction-level event. Not just high odds, but certain-sure. A nearby supernova will ...

Professor On Shun Pak and his team of student researchers use microrobots to model the swimming motion of bacteria in the ...

NASA’s Curiosity Martian rover finds organic-like, long-chain alkanes preserved in the planet’s mudstone Twelve years after ...

Right now, Mars is a reddish desert landscape – attractive ... However, in the mid-20th century, microbiologist Thomas D. Brock discovered bacteria living in the hot springs of Yellowstone ...

They might have been a kind of algae or bacteria. After that internship and earning three ... he worked on an idea to help fill in the fossil record of life on Earth by looking at Mars. That's because ...

it is unlikely to be more than some very simple kind of bacteria. There are a number of reasons for this, but the facts on the ground are that Mars has been so dry for over two billion years that ...

that hardened and trapped ancient bacteria as fossils within their layers. Much of the ancient water on Mars likely also evaporated, leaving behind deposits of sulfates. If microbial life ever ...