Have you ever heard of an animal that can survive in boiling water, in below-freezing temperatures and even in the depths of space? Well, if not, then you should probably learn about the microscopic ...

Living organisms need an energy source, water, and a reasonably stable environment in order to survive. Most lifeforms are ...

An enlarged image of a microscopic tardigrade. These invertebrates are considered close relatives of arthropods and are found in a variety of habitats around the world. Most plant-eating tardigrades ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts think they might even survive right up until the Sun dies.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images Tardigrades, the ubiquitous ...

New research finds that the microscopic “water bears" are remarkably good at repairing their DNA after a huge blast of radiation. By Carl Zimmer To introduce her children to the hidden marvels of the ...

I last wrote about extremophiles—creatures that thrive in environments that are extremely hot, cold, salty, acidic, alkaline, radioactive, and so forth—not just because these critters are interesting ...

Nature is full of impressively resilient creatures. Take scorpions, for example, which have been around for about 437 million ...

Just over five years ago, on 22 February 2019, an unmanned space probe was placed in orbit around the Moon. Named Beresheet and built by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries, it was intended to be ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Wired writer Daniel Oberhaus about a failed lunar mission that left a few thousand tardigrades a microscopic animal,... Thousands Of Tardigrades Are Stranded On The Moon ...