February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
...potentially worth studying as they would help plants resist the harsh conditions of space. For example, microorganisms adapted to hypersaline environments possess genes for UV resistance and perchlorate resistance. Many dwarf varieties (e.g. of wheat...
12 April 2016
Visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missions
... that can be used for the removal of orbital debris in low Earth orbit (LEO), a concept for reprogramming microorganisms that could use the Martian environment to recycle and print electronics and a system that harvests water...
18 October 2016
Plans for first ever Space nation "Asgardia" announced today
... radiation; cosmic radiation from nuclear reactions in novae, supernovae and pulsars; and the danger of Earth infection by microorganisms from meteors and other small celestial bodies. The third goal is to create a demilitarized and free scientific...
01 April 2019
First independent confirmation of methane on Mars
... methane-spewing microbes? Methane can also be formed via abiotic processes, therefore the presence of organic matter or microorganisms are not needed to produce it. Giuranna and team say that the possible source location for this...
29 May 2019
Comets inspire new way to make breathable oxygen on other planets
... ago to start pumping substantial quantities of O2 into the skies, before life could use it to evolve beyond simple microorganisms that dominated the planet at the time. Oxygen now makes up nearly 21 percent of Earth’s atmosphere. Finding such...
15 July 2019
New study says silica aerogel could make Mars habitable
... Mars still possesses extant life today, its survival or detection might be hampered by the presence of Earth-based microorganisms. Therefore just because you can make somewhere habitable, doesn’t necessarily mean you should. There is little...
