Thirty years ago, terraforming Mars wasn’t just hard — it was impossible,” said Erika DeBenedictis, CEO of Pioneer Labs. Now, ...

A new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the blueprint ...

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

These "extremophile" microorganisms could lead ... "We are unraveling the mysteries of microbes that withstand the extreme conditions of space – organisms with the potential to revolutionize ...

The Extremophile Campaign ... in October to leverage participatory science in the quest to identify helpful organisms. Henriksen said they've already made some new discoveries.

But if we were to search Mars, Titan, or the subsurface oceans of Europa or Enceladus, it seems like all we can reasonably hope to find is extremophile microbes. And microbes, just a few microns ...