When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. What will future astronauts living on Mars or traveling in deep space eat? Researchers have ...

The search for life in space has led astronomers to look everywhere from the surface of Mars to the atmospheres of the most distant exoplanets. Now, scientists have discovered unknown bacteria that ...

Scientists have known that wherever humans go, we carry microorganisms with us, and the International Space Station is no exception. Several types of non-pathogenic bacteria and fungi have been found ...

Humans are filthy. No, I don't mean we bring garbage with us wherever we go, though we tend to do that as well, we're really just filthy creatures. We're covered in bacteria inside and out, but that's ...

In mid-March, NASA researchers announced that they’d found an unknown life-form hiding aboard the International Space Station. And they were cool with that. In fact, for an organization known for a ...