Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the sun sets in April and ...

Not even an asteroid blast could kill it.

Bacteria living in Antarctica’s barren desert soils have developed a survival strategy that defies conventional biology: they ...

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

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.

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

A study on wild northern cardinals shows that stress can change gut microbes and affect bird health in measurable ways.

Scientists discover immune genes influence which gut bacteria live in animals by studying a tiny island bird population.

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