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

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

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life ...

"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another." ...

Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...

In an effort to explain how life started on Earth billions of years ago, some scientists have suggested that microbes — or ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical ...

Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to ...

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

Collisions with asteroids on Mars could do more than create massive craters—they might actually send living microbes into ...

The tiniest life forms are also among Earth’s toughest, from near-invincible tardigrades to extremophilic microbes that ...