The tardigrade’s unusual body plan and resistance to harsh conditions provide researchers like Bob Goldstein with a creative ...

Discover tardigrades, tiny 'water bears' famous for survival. Learn how they endure extreme cold, heat, and space by drying ...

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the ...

As India’s astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla heads to the International Space Station on the Axiom-4 mission, he won’t be alone — a ...

Group Captain Shukla will pilot the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the ISS, becoming the first Indian to live and work on the ...

Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense radiation, and ...

The Indian astronaut will launch to the Space Station with Axiom Space on a 14-day-long mission to live and work in zero ...

It’s tiny, chubby, and practically indestructible. Meet the tardigrade, the only known animal that can survive the brutal vacuum and radiation of outer space.

Despite facing significant threats from overfishing and habitat destruction, sturgeons have persisted, bearing witness to Earth’s ever-changing history. Tardigrades, or water bears, are microscopic ...

Another group that uses this method for dealing with the cold Antarctic climate are the tardigrades (also known as water bears). Freezing can extend the life of this animal. In fact, one tardigrade ...

Have you ever wondered if there’s an organism that can survive in any condition? From the freezing cold of space or the deep sea, to above boiling temperatures or radiation over 1,000 times the lethal ...