DNA analysis has revealed that 26 novel species of "extremophile" bacteria were lurking in a clean room that housed NASA's ...

In a surprising discovery, NASA scientists found 26 new bacterial species in a JPL clean room, raising concerns about ...

Sterilizing robotic spacecraft to prevent contamination is one thing, but sterilizing human beings is impossible. We are ...

Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, along with researchers in India and Saudi ...

Chinese scientists report that they’ve found a novel bacteria on the Tiangong space station, but can’t confirm if it evolved ...

A new study reports that 26 new bacterial species were found growing inside cleanrooms associated with NASA space missions.

But the latest research tells a different story. Using machine learning and one of the most comprehensive datasets ever ...

NASA 's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale Crater this February. The agency has since converted that data into a ...

The clean rooms used to prep NASA's Phoenix Mars lander for launch were not as ... or even NASA clean rooms. "Our study aimed to understand the risk of extremophiles being transferred in space ...