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

Thirty years ago, terraforming Mars wasn’t just hard — it was impossible,” said Erika DeBenedictis, CEO of Pioneer Labs. Now, ...

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 ...

But the latest research tells a different story. Using machine learning and one of the most comprehensive datasets ever ...