DNA analysis has revealed that 26 novel species of "extremophile" bacteria were lurking in a clean room that housed NASA's ...

a new study reveals. Some of the hardy microbes may be capable of surviving the vacuum of space. However, there is no evidence that the spacecraft or Mars were contaminated. NASA's Phoenix Mars ...

Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, along with researchers in India and Saudi ...

Sterilizing robotic spacecraft to prevent contamination is one thing, but sterilizing human beings is impossible. We are ...

NASA 's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale ...

After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock and soil on the Martian surface. Experts are furious ...

Accidental contamination shows how even NASA missions can send resilient Earth microbes to other planets, risking false ...

NASA has uncovered ancient microbes on Earth that could potentially ... reshape our understanding of life’s resilience, influence Mars exploration plans, and fuel hopes for future colonization ...

A new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the blueprint ...

Similarly, a separate study shows that NASA’s clean room—used for the Phoenix Mars lander mission—also contained 26 novel bacteria species. Bacteria seem to thrive anywhere—even in places ...