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

Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.

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A new study shows how simulated Mars dust affects tardigrades, offering insight into space farming and contamination risks.

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.

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

The way this document is written suggests that when NASA scores bidders for the Mars Telecommunications Network, the addition ...

On Earth, knowing the time feels simple. Your phone pings the same second as a GPS satellite and an atomic clock in a lab. Everything is wired together so well that you rarely think about the ...

Earth’s climate is not only shaped by smokestacks, forests, and oceans. It is also quietly tuned by the slow choreography of the planets, with Mars acting as a distant partner that nudges our world’s ...

Lightning long ago escaped the bounds of Earth’s atmosphere—scientists have already discovered lightning blazing through the skies of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. Now they think they’ve found it on ...

At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the extent to which Mars is quietly tugging on Earth's orbit and shaping the ...