NASA scientists have accidentally uncovered 26 previously unknown species of bacteria—a discovery that challenges current ...

NASA's ultra-sterile cleanrooms aren't as microbe-free as once thought. Scientists have discovered 26 new bacterial species ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown strain of microbe after analyzing samples taken from China's Tiangong space ...

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

A new study by scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several institutes across India and Saudi Arabia has ...

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

A decade after the release of "The Martian" and a decade out from the world it envisions, how close is reality to fiction?

"Basically, we detected a water–ice reservoir," Xie told Space.com. This water–ice reservoir could be instrumental in the development of any planetary system that might exist around HD 181327.

Casey Dreier, the policy advocate for the Pasadena-based Planetary Society, says, “This is an extinction-level event for the Earth- and space-science communities, upending decades of work and ...