The foul-smelling single-celled microbes are believed to have lived more than 3.5 billion years ago.
Researchers have discovered microbes living in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth.
A thriving pea soup of plankton has been found living in the frozen depths below arctic ice sheets.
When Apollo 12 returned to Earth in 1969, microorganisms were found on one of the cameras.
Taking the idea of panspermia one step further - could dead alien microbes have spread life to the Earth ?
Bacteria placed outside the International Space Station was found to be still alive after 553 days in space.
Scientists have found a microbe called Methanosarcina barkeri that lives in water sediment where oxygen is scarce, breat...
Microbes locked within the ice in Greenland for 120,000 years have awoken, the new species of bacteria was found 2 miles...
A rust-stained substance gushing from a glacier or 'Blood Falls' in Antarctica has provided scientists with proof that a...
A new analysis has revealed that microbes living deep underground could have survived the massive bombardment of impacts...