(Natural News) A tough species of microbes has survived a full year in the harsh environment of outer space, bearing the full brunt of cosmic radiation on the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS) without any sort of protection. In an experiment detailed in the journal Microbiome, Japanese and European researchers left cells of the bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans outside the Japanese Aerospace […]

(Natural News) If Venusian life does exist, it may have originated from Earth: An interplanetary hopper hitched a ride with an asteroid that grazed Earth’s upper atmosphere and landed on Venus. Researchers from Harvard University — astronomy professor Avi Loeb and student Amir Siraj — proposed the idea after a group of scientists recently detected signatures of phosphine. Microorganisms […]