Tardigrades, a type of microscopic animal, can reveal information about how life interacts with simulated Martian mineral deposits. The three images on top are active tardigrades in a typical Earth ...

Fort Rock State Natural Area in Fort Rock, Oregon, is exactly that kind of place, where the landscape looks so otherworldly you’ll keep checking to make sure you’re still in the Pacific Northwest. You ...

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

By fertilizing inorganic regolith with organic human waste that has been processed through bioreactors, future astronauts ...

Can NASA and Elon Musk get us to Mars and beyond?

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these ...

Two landers manufactured by Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines were briefly on the moon at the same time in March 2025.

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

Two US lunar landers launched from the Kennedy Space Center touched down on the moon in March 2025, marking a milestone for ...

Two lunar landers manufactured by Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines, both based in Texas, were on the moon in March ...

Tardigrades, commonly known as water bears, may be better suited by a new name: Tardiguardians of the Galaxy. Unlike the fictional ragtag team of unenthusiastic heroes, the microscopic animals are ...

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic molecules discovered on Mars.