The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and alter the physical structures of bacteria and phages, disrupting their normal ...

When scientists sent bacteria-infecting viruses to the International Space Station, the microbes did not behave the same way ...

The viruses devise ploys to break into bacterial defenses. Bacteria, on the other hand, strengthen their defenses so that ...

Scientists discover microgravity in space could help fight drug-resistant superbugs by creating unique viral mutations, ...

A new study has uncovered dynamics of virus-bacteria interactions in the microgravity environment of the International Space ...

Bacteria and viruses are locked in a slow motion battle aboard the ISS that looks nothing like life on the ground.

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low ...

Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

Spaceflight takes a physical toll on astronauts, causing muscles to atrophy, bones to thin and bodily fluids to shift.