Swabs from China's Tiangong space station reveal traces of a bacterium unseen on Earth, with characteristics that may help it ...

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

Last year, scientists uncovered a mutated strain of drug-resistant bacteria thriving under the harsh conditions of space ...

Chinese scientists have discovered in samples from the Tiangong space station a previously unknown strain of bacteria that ...

In a surprising discovery, scientists found 26 new bacteria species thriving in NASA's spacecraft clean rooms, designed to ...

Seven of the new strains were cultured during the assembly of the Phoenix mission that landed on the surface of Mars.

These aren't the first bacteria to be discovered in space but they are particularly well-adapted for space station life.

A recent study published in the journal Microbiome has uncovered an interesting discovery in NASA’s cleanrooms: new species ...