Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the ...

Given that microbes helped make Earth habitable, we could use synthetic biology to engineer microbes to speed up a similar ...

There are roughly a trillion species of microorganisms on Earth—the vast majority of which are bacteria. Bacteria consist of ...

Researchers exposed two lichen species to Mars-like atmospheric conditions for five hours—and one performed impressively.

Researchers at Purdue University are weighing in on the possibility that the Tesla Roadster could eventually impact Mars, and bring a whole host of bacteria from Earth along with it. Nobody really ...

Here’s how it works. An arrowhead-shaped rock on Mars sporting features that may hint at ancient microbial activity on the Red Planet has left scientists puzzled. NASA announced in July of last ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a bacteria-based technique to repair bricks that can be ...

How can future astronauts on the Moon repair lunar habitats constructed with space bricks? This is what a recent study ...