A new review study explains that extremophiles have revolutionized medicine, and are invaluable allies in the fight against ...

Microbes that flourish in boiling hydrothermal vents, bone-dry desert sediments, and radiation-blasted Antarctic rock are ...

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life ...

Most forms of life cannot survive extreme environmental conditions, like excessive temperatures. Likewise, the significant majority of species on our planet have a set lifespan and cannot exist past a ...

New experiments showed how a bacterium could survive being thrown into space by an impact.

If any organism could survive getting catapulted off the surface of Mars and drifting through interplanetary space, this would be the one. The question was whether it could handle the initial violence ...

Asteroid impacts may catapult life from one planet to another, as new research claims that hardy bacteria can survive the ...

The extremophile bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans can survive the pressures developed during ejection from Mars as a result of massive asteroid impact. According to the authors, microorganisms can ...

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A bioactive compound produced by an extremophilic bacterium has potential industrial applications. An international collaboration of researchers has isolated a bioactive compound in extremophilic ...