Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

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Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

The world's first lab-based tick feeding system for bush ticks, developed by researchers at the University of Melbourne, has transformed the study of ticks and how they transmit disease. The novel, ...

It might be easier for us to explore and live on the Moon than we previously thought, scientists say. Ice may be present just ...