Tiny soil animals survive harsh desert conditions, revealing hidden life and climate driven survival strategies underground.

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Beneath the surface of forests, grasslands and farms across the world, vast fungal webs form underground trading systems to ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...