NASA – Science & research news

Bacteria could survive the travel from Earth to Mars, and vice versa, when forming aggregates

August 26, 2020

By Lucie Sammicheli, science writer The hypothesis called “panspermia” proposes an interplanetary transfer of life. Microbes inside shielding material such as rocks could [...]

NASA space data can cut disaster response times, costs

December 10, 2019

Using near-real-time satellite data could improve emergency management: Frontiers in Environmental Science [...]

Dormant viruses activate during spaceflight – NASA investigates

March 18, 2019

The stress of spaceflight gives viruses a holiday from immune surveillance, putting future deep-space missions in jeopardy; Frontiers in Microbiology [...]

News from #AGU15: NASA’s LADEE mission

January 13, 2016

Our colleague Laura Smart, Journal Coordinator in our Physical Sciences and Engineering program, represented Frontiers at the AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting [...]