NASA scientists have accidentally uncovered 26 previously unknown species of bacteria—a discovery that challenges current ...

In an unexpected twist, NASA scientists have discovered 26 previously unknown species of bacteria—right inside one of the ...

Galactic bones, filaments of radio-wave-emitting particles, run through our galaxy, and one of them has a fracture. New ...

Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s ...

Scientists have discovered yet another never-before-seen strand of bacteria growing on a space station. This time it was ...

Scientists have discovered a new bacteria species called niallia tiangongensis aboard China's Tiangong space station.

Marine bacteria control how much CO2 is stored in the oceans, by swimming after and degrading sinking particles that would otherwise remain stored in the ocean for millennia. Researchers have ...

Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria, which were discovered in waste-water sludge in the early 1990s, have the unique metabolic ability to combine ammonium and nitrite or nitrate to ...

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

"Writing this column is a challenge. I can’t type an entire sentence without stopping to … (excuse me, please, for a moment) ...

Buried in the DNA of the long extinct woolly mammoth is a compound that scientists hope will one day yield a lifesaving ...