Asteroid impacts may catapult life from one planet to another, as new research claims that hardy bacteria can survive the ...
"It's like the balloon that's not punctured everywhere, but where it is punctured, it's punctured deep." ...
Craters, craters, and yet more craters: this snapshot from ESA's Mars Express is packed full of them, each as fascinating as ...
The idea that life can spread from world to world dates as far back as ancient Greece and the philosopher Anaxagoras.
The ISS has a rotating crew of seven astronauts, and they're equipped with all sorts of medical equipment, but not everything ...
Facing a series of major delays and budget overruns, NASA is re-engineering its efforts to return American astronauts to the ...
"In lunar and Martian outposts, organic wastes will be key to generating healthy, productive soils," said study leader ...
This meant subjecting microbes to minimum pressures equivalent to ten times those of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of ...
Two landers manufactured by Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines were briefly on the moon at the same time in March 2025.
Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...
Two US lunar landers launched from the Kennedy Space Center touched down on the moon in March 2025, marking a milestone for NASA's Artemis program.