As scientists search for life on Mars, they should take a close look at rock varnish, according to a paper in the current issue of the “Journal of Geophysical Research.” The paper describes how a ...

New, proposed "space bricks" would mix Martian dirt, urea and bacteria. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Imagine a home on Mars.

Unicellular algae are an attractive and surprisingly diverse habitat for marine bacteria. A research team led by microbiologist Professor Dr. Meinhard Simon from the University of Oldenburg has now ...

It’s a most unlikely habitat and really has no creature comforts to recommend it. But University of Delaware researcher Julie Maresca and students in her lab are studying concrete and the life that ...

We're going to be on the Moon a lot more often soon, and that means we'll need places to rest, conduct research, and work there. Building habitats and maintaining them will be tough, but bacteria ...

The diversity and composition of local communities depends strongly on the pool of species that have been able to colonize that community from elsewhere. Typically this is thought to depend on a ...

As we’re looking to expand our reach into the solar systems, we humans seem to be considering all options available to us that are capable of sustaining that expansion. Including using cyanobacteria ...

An everyday item in your kitchen is a better home for many diverse types of bacteria than a petri dish in a laboratory, new research revealed. A common sponge's spatial partitioning -- the way it's ...