Scientists from Australia have successfully bioengineered genetically modified fruit flies and zebrafish capable of absorbing ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

New images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show colorful clouds in the sky over Mars. The images were captured by the rover's Mastcam, which NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory compared to the rover's ...

American space agency NASA publishes a short video showing iridescent clouds moving in the thin Martian atmosphere, as seen ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

Red-and-green-tinted clouds drift through the Martian sky in a new set of images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover using its ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

Boffins plan to set a vampire trap to lure out aliens hiding on Mars using a chemical in human blood. Astrobiologists are ...

A new chemotaxis-based method could revolutionize the search for extraterrestrial life by detecting microbes movement on Mars ...

In the short run, what will life on earth be like 200 years from now? In the long run, will there be human life on earth ...

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

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery ...