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 ...

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

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

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 ...

In a new paper, a group of planetary scientists, biologists, and engineers make the case for treating Mars as the ultimate ...

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

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

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 ...