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 has implications for medicine, energy efficiency, and astrobiology. Which ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

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

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

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

Researchers have now developed a simple test that could get us closer to the answer. The new method involves looking for ...

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that can move independently, an ...

A groundbreaking cannabinoid-based antimicrobial, Silvanex, fights drug-resistant infections with a synergy of silver, CBC ...