It is possible that extremophile microbes lcould exist on icy moons and planets with conditions similar to subglacial waters ...

Bacteria riding on sinking ocean particles can erode the mineral ballast that helps those particles descend, slowing the ...

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

Some bacteria can take a punch that would crush a submarine. In a new set of impact tests, one desert microbe, Deinococcus ...

In an effort to explain how life started on Earth billions of years ago, some scientists have suggested that microbes — or ...

As deep-sea waters warm, scientists expected trouble for the microbes that help keep ocean chemistry in balance. Instead, researchers found that Nitrosopumilus maritimus can adapt to warmer, ...

If confirmed in people, the finding might lead to gut-targeted therapies that could reverse cognitive decline.

In some parts of the deep ocean, it can look like it's snowing. This "marine snow" is the dust and detritus that organisms slough off as they die and decompose. Marine snow can fall several kilometers ...

Deep-sea waters are warming due to heat waves and climate change, and it could spell trouble for the oceans' delicate chemical and biological balance. However, a study published in Proceedings of the ...

Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.