On Earth, that trio — hydrogen, oxidants and shuffling iron — can sustain microbes living far below the surface and far from ...

Similarly, a separate study shows that NASA’s clean room—used for the Phoenix Mars lander mission—also contained 26 novel bacteria species.

A deceptive difference having to do with Earth's and Mars's gravity may be the reason why NASA's rovers get stuck in the ...

Perseverance has uncovered unusual, basalt-rich Martian spherules that likely formed in violent explosions—either from ...

As detailed in a NASA-funded study, scientists are designing strains of Pseudomonas bacteria to detoxify Mars’ perchlorate-contaminated soil and convert atmospheric nitrogen, laying the ...

FILE - This image made available by NASA shows the Jezero Crater area on the planet Mars, captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring ...

RELATED STORIES — — — Single-celled microorganisms, such as bacteria, might also be able to survive on Mars if they were sheltered from radiation, living underground.

The prestigious research journal cites a change of standards to dismiss a NASA study that claimed to have discovered a bacterium that thrives on arsenic ...

New research suggests ancient Mars had rainfall, forming valleys and rivers—hinting at a wetter, possibly habitable past. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) ...

In 1976, NASA’s Viking mission successfully landed the first spacecraft on Mars. When the mission began sending images from Mars’ surface back to Earth, scientists noted long, dark streaks on ...

A new study by scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several institutes across India and Saudi Arabia has reported 26 novel bacterial species growing inside cleanrooms associated ...

Similarly, a separate study shows that NASA’s clean room—used for the Phoenix Mars lander mission—also contained 26 novel bacteria species.