The Ultimate Survivors Meet Their Match on Mars Tardigrades, those legendary “water bears” ranging from a mere 0.1 to 1.5 ...

Penn State researchers are taking the unique resilience of tardigrades or ‘water bears’ as a basis for evaluation into how living organisms will respond and protect Martian resources. These ...

The latest fungus on Mars research is drawing attention after scientists tested whether certain space resistant microbes could survive conditions similar to space travel and the Martian surface. The ...

Hopefully, we're about to travel back to the moon relatively soon. And while the original "giant leap for mankind" was taken ...

Can life survive on Mars? This is what a recent study published in PNAS Nexus hopes to address as a team of scientists from India investigated how life could survive on the surface of Mars, despite ...

Decontamination in cleanrooms used by NASA to build and study spacecraft focus mainly on bacteria. Researchers recently identified fungi in samples from spacecraft-associated environments, including ...