Microorganisms with perfect adaptations can survive in harsh settings, such as deep-sea tunnels and mountain peaks. Scientists may learn more about Earthly life and maybe extraterrestrial life by ...

Diana Northup can get extreme about extremophiles, microbes that thrive in environments that would terminate us humans in seconds flat. "We think we're superior beings, but these guys are really ...

Usually, but not invariably, single celled organisms that can survive and thrive in what humans would consider extreme conditions – radioactive, low or high pressure, acidic or alkaline, very ...

The search for intelligent life in other worlds has taken astrobiologist Nathalie A. Cabrol to extreme places, discovering ...

Extremophile microalgae thrive across the cryosphere when temperatures are positive and sunlight available for photosynthesis. Under the right conditions, such snow- and glacier-algae create ...

Among them, unusual creatures that microbiologists call extremophiles, which have figured in significant scientific discoveries. Lightning strikes above the Fan and Mortar geysers in Yellowstone's ...