Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific ...

A remarkably hardy bacterium can survive pressures similar to those generated when asteroid impacts blast debris off Mars, a ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Mars might have its own defense mechanism against life from Earth, in a kind of reverse of "The War of the Worlds" scenario ...

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic ...

Researchers have identified powerful Martian electrical discharges, similar to lightning, and strong enough to be observed ...

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has been exploring a curious geological formation made up of ridges that look like spiderwebs ...

Tardigrades, commonly known as water bears, may be better suited by a new name: Tardiguardians of the Galaxy. Unlike the ...

New photos captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show that Mars' giant, spiderweb-like "boxwork" features are covered in tiny, ...

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across ...

Tardigrades, a type of microscopic animal, in can reveal information about how life interacts with simulated Martian mineral ...