China is already preparing for life on Mars—and it’s far more real than most people think. With prototype Mars bases built in remote deserts, the country is training future astronauts for survival on ...

An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary quarantine ...

Scientists study whether Aspergillus calidoustus could survive Mars-like conditions, raising new concerns about microbes in ...

NASA’s plans for humanity’s first Mars colony revealed the terrifying reality of trying to survive on one of the most hostile ...

NASA cleanrooms exist to keep spacecraft free of fungus and bacteria that could unknowingly hitch a ride to another world. But what if these procedures aren’t sufficient? This is what a recent study ...

A fungus pulled from NASA cleanrooms kept surviving tests that were meant to mimic nearly every stage of a trip to Mars. That does not mean Mars is about to be seeded with Earth life. However, the ...

Can life survive on Mars? This is what a recent study published in PNAS Nexus hopes to address as a team of scientists from India investigated how life could survive on the surface of Mars, despite ...

Mars may be hostile, but it might not be entirely unlivable. In lab experiments, yeast cells survived simulated Martian shock waves and toxic perchlorate salts—two major environmental threats on the ...