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

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 ...

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

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

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

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at why you still can’t rely on chatbots, a new battery chemistry that could ...

NASA 's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale Crater this February. The agency has since converted that data into a ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown strain of microbe after analyzing samples taken from China's Tiangong space ...

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well ...

The microbe demonstrated resilience to space-specific stressors, including enhanced repair from radiation damage.

Analysis of swabs from China's Tiangong Space Station has revealed a new strain of bacteria sporting new adaptations for ...