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

NASA Research shows Alien Life could exist on Mars TODAY!

Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

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

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

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

"Life is always hardier than we expect it to be." The post Scientists Find Microbes Can Survive Traveling from Planet to ...

By fertilizing inorganic regolith with organic human waste that has been processed through bioreactors, future astronauts ...

A new study has provided compelling evidence that life from Mars could have arrived on Earth by hitching a ride on debris ejected during asteroid impacts. The research, led by scientists at Johns ...

A new study challenges the traditional boundaries of the habitable zone, showing that liquid water could exist on the dark ...

Preventing the unintended contamination of extraterrestrial bodies is a key concern for space explorers, and these findings suggest the regolith on Mars is resilient—at least to tardigrade infestation ...