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

Scientists have discovered 26 previously unknown bacterial species in the clean rooms that were used to prep NASA's Phoenix ...

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

An international team of scientists from India, Saudi Arabia, and the US has identified 26 novel bacterial species growing i ...

Researchers bombarded these hybrid lifeforms with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that they could potentially live on the Red Planet.

Diana Northup can get extreme about extremophiles, microbes that thrive in environments that would terminate us humans in seconds flat. "We think we're superior beings, but these guys are really ...

From kitchen slime to water heaters, household microbes may hold the key to absorbing CO₂ and cleaning pollution.

Extremophiles explore galaxy This past Monday, the Endeavor space shuttle was launched into space carrying six astronauts, brand new equipment for studying the universe and... a bobtail squid and a ...

Among them, unusual creatures that microbiologists call extremophiles, which have figured in significant scientific discoveries. Lightning strikes above the Fan and Mortar geysers in Yellowstone's ...

Usually, but not invariably, single celled organisms that can survive and thrive in what humans would consider extreme conditions – radioactive, low or high pressure, acidic or alkaline, very ...

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Distinct roles of an ionic interaction holding an alpha-helix with catalytic Asp and a beta-strand with catalytic His in a hyperthermophilic esterase EstE1 and a mesophilic esterase rPPE.