A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containers made from the same ...

Mars has not had widespread liquid water for 2 billion years, so even if ancient life did evolve there, 280 million years is still too short to suggest that the planet hosts a plethora of bacteria ...

The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

Scientists have created living communities of bacteria and fungi that could survive in protective habitats on the Red Planet.

An Algerian scientist splits his gaze between microbes and Mars Searching for small fossils in big rocks requires specialized tools --tools that scientists could also use to look for evidence of ...

Bacteria could survive just under Mars's surface for 280 million years. When bacteria are dried and frozen, as they most likely would be just under the surface of Mars, ...

Research from the International Space Station reveals the benefits of using bacteria to extract minerals from material found on the Moon and Mars. One specific … ...

All across Mars, even in some of its coldest regions, the presence of liquid water thus could have allowed the appearance of microbes similar to the earliest ones that emerged on Earth—ones ...

One of Earth’s toughest microbes could survive on Mars, lying dormant beneath the surface, for 280 million years, new research has shown.The findings increase the probability that microbial life ...

Bacteria could help us create oxygen on Mars Image source: Paulista / Adobe. NASA is already looking into tech that should let us breathe on Mars.But now, scientists want to take it a step further ...

The discovery that Conan the Bacterium could have survived Mars-like conditions suggests that bacteria native to the Red Planet might have developed the capacity to do the same. D. radiodurans ...

EVANSTON, Ill. — When Mars’ first samples return to Earth, scientists should be on the lookout for ancient sleeping bacteria, a new study has found. In a first-of-its-kind study, a research ...