The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the ...
Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...
What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...
Craters, craters, and yet more craters: this snapshot from ESA's Mars Express is packed full of them, each as fascinating as ...
A potential new mineral on Mars forms when iron sulfates are heated above 100°C. Data from Valles Marineris regions suggest ...
Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.
Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.
A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life ...
"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another." ...
It’s not so much a traditional clock as it is a measuring tool, but it’s all that’s needed to do some basic, interplanetary ...
Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...