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

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is among the most damaging pests affecting soybean crops around the world, with current ...

Some bacteria can take a punch that would crush a submarine. In a new set of impact tests, one desert microbe, Deinococcus ...

Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...

Eukaryotes—the building blocks of complex life—appeared on Earth 1.7 billion years ago, and now scientists have solved a ...

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

Microbes are usually cast as villains, yet most of the microscopic life on and around us is quietly keeping us alive. From the bacteria lining your gut to the organisms drifting in city air, these ...

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.

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

Exposure to more germs may backfire for adult asthma sufferers In A Nutshell A new mouse study from Cornell University found that adult mice exposed to a wide variety of microbes developed more severe ...

Space-based experiments show fungi can efficiently extract valuable metals from meteorites in microgravity, advancing prospects for asteroid biomining and sustainable resource use. As humans look ...