A new study has provided compelling evidence that life from Mars could have arrived on Earth by hitching a ride on debris ejected during asteroid impacts. The research, led by scientists at Johns ...

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

Most forms of life cannot survive extreme environmental conditions, like excessive temperatures. Likewise, the significant majority of species on our planet have a set lifespan and cannot exist past a ...

CSU students Jacob Hall and Emma Lopez process samples from the In Your Home extremophile campaign at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory. Photo courtesy SeedLabs, Colorado State University FORT ...

Scottish author Ian Green is best known for a bestselling epic fantasy series, but his first science fiction novel, Extremophile, has an anarchic and grimy power all of its own. Falling loosely into ...

Microbes that are used for health, agricultural, or other applications need to be able to withstand extreme conditions and, ideally, the manufacturing processes used to make tablets for long-term ...

These extremophile microbes are of interest to astrobiologists who are searching for life on other planets. Researchers currently use individual gene sequencing to identify Earth-bound microbes, based ...