(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny microscopic creatures commonly known as water bears (also called Tardigrades), along with a few other life forms, will be sent to the Martian moon Phobos to test whether ...

Every time we send spacecraft to explore the solar system, we send along lots of tiny microbes. In fact, we may have deposited a trillion microbial spores on Mars. How will we ever discover alien life ...

A 1000-fold higher dose repair is neat, but the ability to survive few years of no DNA repair merely points out the gap to various space applications (suspended animation, transpermia candidates et ...

THE first earthlings will be heading for Mars in two years. But the pioneers won't be courageous test pilots or scientists. If they make it home alive, the 34-month return voyage will be one giant ...