Microorganisms from our planet could survive on celestial bodies where water is present, such as Mars. That is the conclusion of Ph.D. candidate Tommaso Zaccaria after experiments with simulated space ...
Tiny yeast cells have shown they can handle conditions similar to those on Mars. In lab tests, they survived both intense shock waves and exposure to toxic perchlorate salts, two of the planet’s most ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A colony of an Aspergillus fungus growing in a petri dish. (sarahlai/iNaturalist/CC BY-NC 4.0) The next mission to Mars could ...
From early life in shallow seas to hardy organisms in deserts and polar ice, microbes have repeatedly reshaped Earth’s environment. I see a similar logic driving current Mars research, where ...