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 ...

Penn State researchers are taking the unique resilience of tardigrades or ‘water bears’ as a basis for evaluation into how living organisms will respond and protect Martian resources. These ...

The latest fungus on Mars research is drawing attention after scientists tested whether certain space resistant microbes could survive conditions similar to space travel and the Martian surface. The ...