It can also make leather-like materials and building blocks for a Martian house.

Scientists have long known that fungi are resilient, but a new study suggests that some strains might survive every step of the long, brutal trip to Mars. In a paper published in Applied and ...

A bacterium already famous for shrugging off extreme radiation and desiccation has now passed another brutal test: surviving the kind of violent impact that could blast rocks off the surface of Mars.

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 ...

Decontamination in cleanrooms used by NASA to build and study spacecraft focus mainly on bacteria. Researchers recently identified fungi in samples from spacecraft-associated environments, including ...