After her initial test run, she cultured a regular sample, as well as the shocked sample so she could compare them side by ...

To see how microgravity changes certain microbes, researchers sent bacteria-infecting viruses called bacteriophages to the ...

Researchers in the Raman Lab at UW recently published a study discussing sending microbes into space at the International Space Station to evaluate how mutations induced by microgravity may impact ...

Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment while floating in weightlessness. In a carefully controlled experiment on the ...

Can life transport between planets from impacts? This is what a recent study published in PNAS Nexus hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how microbes could have come to Earth via ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low orbit of Earth. And research out today finds that bacteriophages—the viruses ...

How can microbes be used to help enhance human space exploration, specifically on the Moon and Mars? This is what a recent study published in npj Microgravity hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

Suppose you're one of those people who wonders if life on Earth came from outer space. This isn't just the stuff of science fiction. Scientists really wonder about this - wonder if microbes traveled ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." As human spaceflight ventures farther and farther beyond our life-sustaining home planet, we’ll need to ...

Space travel is not for the weak. Astronauts endure motion sickness, disorientation, cardiovascular stress—and that’s before they even reach orbit. Luckily, the bacteria that lives inside us is far ...