Finding resources far from Earth is a well-known spaceflight limitation, but metal-harvesting microbes provide a way to tap outer space’s mineral wealth.

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria ...

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

Studying ancient microbes like this one is risky research, but it can also reveal novel biological mechanisms that inspire ...

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...

ISS BioAsteroid study shows bacteria and fungi can extract metals from meteorite material in microgravity, offering insights for future space resource use ...