“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant alien microbes into revealing ...

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

A team of researchers in Germany have proposed a new method for searching for life on alien worlds, which they believe could ...

Chemotaxis, a process for chemically inducing movement in an organism, may be a crucial tool in the search for life on Mars.

Makuch, an astrobiologist at Technical University Berlin, has put forward a striking theory suggesting that NASA's Viking ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A new study says that ancient microbes could have been responsible for Mars’s climate ...

Human ambition to want to know as much as possible about everything around us in space is something that could already be considered historical. Advances are continuing and NASA's ...

The search for alien life could be boosted by a simple new test, say scientists. They believe the movement of microbes may ...

Researchers have long investigated what type of life exists beyond Earth and how we can find it. A new method focuses on looking for one of the most basic signs of living microbes – movement.

Astronauts are set to swab the space station's exterior, searching for living microbes to better understand how they survive ...

After all, we wouldn’t want to one day discover microbes on Mars just to wonder whether they’re truly Martians, or simply hitchhikers.