Ancient bacteria might be sleeping beneath the surface of Mars, where it has been shielded from the harsh radiation of space for millions of years, according to new research.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And perhaps, at times, the microbes could reanimate when conditions changed or a thaw occurs. On Earth, for example, NASA scientists successfully thawed ice age bacteria that had been frozen for ...

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 … ...

A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden rice, which is genetically engineered to provide vitamin A, to advances ...

DNA analysis has revealed that 26 novel species of "extremophile" bacteria were lurking in a clean room that housed NASA's Phoenix lander before it was launched to Mars in 2007. The hardy microbes ...

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 ...