NASA once sent over 2,000 jellyfish into space to study how gravity affects biological development. The unusual experiment ...

Space-based experiments show fungi can efficiently extract valuable metals from meteorites in microgravity, advancing prospects for asteroid biomining and sustainable resource use. As humans look ...

When we eventually mine asteroids, humans and robots will not leave unprotected microbes on the surface. Instead, machines ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sitting in a dark planetarium, kids of all ages had stars in their eyes on Friday as they learned about black holes and Earth ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

NASA’s AVATAR experiment uses organ chip models from astronauts to study bone marrow and immune response in microgravity and ...

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Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

It turns out moss is one of the few plants that even the vacuum of space can't kill. Mosses are remarkably resilient, thriving in extreme conditions on Earth - from the intense heat of Death Valley, ...

For years, physicists treated an Earth-to-space quantum uplink as a beautiful idea that nature simply would not allow. Now a set of detailed models and experiments suggests that the same fragile ...