Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are plagued by persistent rashes, unusual allergies and a variety of ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station are falling ill due to an unexpected cause: excessive cleanliness leading to a ...

Pieter Dorrestein, researcher at the University of California, states that the lack of microbes and molecules prevents the ...

explains why bacteria can survive in uninhabitable places such as under the permafrost, in the depths of the ocean or in outer space. This ability to sporulate, known as sporulation, also enables ...

The researchers behind the study came to this conclusion after testing over 800 surfaces across the space station for bacteria. They found a large population of bacteria typically found on human ...

Researchers have discovered that bacterial swarms transition from stable vortices to chaotic turbulence through distinct intermediate states. Combining experiments with bacterial swarms, computer ...

After analyzing over 800 samples collected by astronauts in multiple modules of the United States Orbital Segment in the ISS, Benitez and his team concluded the microbial and chemical environment on ...

By collecting samples after climbing a high peak and firing rockets with special traps into the upper atmosphere, scientists ...