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Imagine a common item in your kitchen pantry, one that you use almost daily, surviving on the harsh surface of Mars. This might sound like science fiction, but recent research from a leading space ...

When it comes to the space sciences, nothing is quite as exciting as the search for alien life, and NASA thinks it has a good ...

Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is an indispensable ingredient in making bread, beer, and biotechnology products. But this humble organism also holds clues to something more cosmic – how life ...

Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.