In a surprising discovery, NASA scientists found 26 new bacterial species in a JPL clean room, raising concerns about planetary contaminati...

Scientists found deep-sea 'death pools' in the Gulf of Aqaba. These pools host extremophile microbes and are devoid of oxygen. The discover...

Gates to Hell: The Darvaza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan, created by a Soviet exploratory team over 50 years ago, is a major tourist attractio...

Over the past two years, there has been a lot of debate over the presence of “liquid water” on Mars. On September 28, a study in ‘Nature’ c...

According to the study, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, life already has survived this kind of ...

Solan, Feb 23 (IANS) A research-based university near here in Himachal Pradesh is working for mountain people and its fragile biodiversity ...

Washington, July 11 (IANS) To keep space travellers safe, NASA researchers are taking steps to fight fungus as prolonged stay in closed hab...

Human presence in closed habitats is associated with changes in the composition of the fungal community - the mycobiome - that grows on sur...

The organisms would use Mars' ample supply of regolith as fuel, and may even serve a dual purpose in removing nitrogen from the Martian soi...

The new technologies offer a wide range of creative, and sometimes cheaper, options to produce a metal used in air conditioners.