A fungus pulled from NASA cleanrooms kept surviving tests that were meant to mimic nearly every stage of a trip to Mars. That ...

It can also make leather-like materials and building blocks for a Martian house.

NASA may have met its match in a microscopic stowaway that shrugs off conditions meant to simulate Mars. Researchers found a ...

Scientists have long known that fungi are resilient, but a new study suggests that some strains might survive every step of the long, brutal trip to Mars. In a paper published in Applied and ...

Can life survive on Mars? This is what a recent study published in PNAS Nexus hopes to address as a team of scientists from India investigated how life could survive on the surface of Mars, despite ...

A recent NASA-supported study reveals that certain fungal spores can survive harsh, Mars-like conditions, challenging existing planetary protection protocols.

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 ...