When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But ...

Scientists discovered that baker’s yeast can survive harsh Mars-like conditions, revealing how simple life forms adapt under ...

Recent experiments have unveiled the remarkable resilience of an Earth bacterium that survived the extreme conditions of a ...

Right now there is no conclusive evidence of life on Mars past or present. Nasa’s “leopard spots” are the most promising signs we have, but these are still inconclusive. If life exists on Mars today, ...

A new study published inPNAS Nexus suggests that baker’s yeast might be far more rugged than anyone expected. Known scientifically as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the same yeast that helps bread rise has ...

The findings may redefine the known boundaries of life on Earth and offer a model for what microbial life might look like on ...

Scientists treated the yeast, known scientifically as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with 100 millimolar sodium perchlorate alone ...

'We want to begin to learn how to live away from the Earth.' As NASA prepares to put astronauts on the moon in the next few years, the agency is thinking about "how to live and operate away from the ...

Bringing samples from Mars back to Earth is one of NASA's most ambitious goals. The plan goes back to the 1970s, with NASA's robotic exploration program, when the first spacecraft landed on the ...

Early Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new studies hint. Early Earth was a barren wasteland incapable of supporting life ...

A distant exoplanet might have an atmosphere similar to Earth's, early observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest. It is part of a group of planets orbiting a star called TRAPPIST ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...