Freezers of the Earth: NASA Researchers Speculate Whether the Moon Has Long Borne Earthly Life
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Bacteria in the lunar crater, astronauts as carriers – and no regulations: What a new study reveals is important for Artemis-4.
A black fungus that thrives in damp bathrooms and has been found aboard the ISS was the toughest organism in NASA's new Moon-survival study — even outperforming a bacterium famous for being one of the most radiation-resistant lifeforms on Earth.
A bathroom mould is not going to spread across the Moon. There is no rain, no breathable air and no stable liquid water on the lunar surface. Yet spores carried from Earth may not die as quickly as that setting suggests. A NASA-led study published in August 2026 mapped small niches near the lunar south pole where human-associated microbes could remain viable. The most persistent candidate was Aspergillus niger, a darkly pigmented fungus common i…
NASA research shows that some types of fungi and bacteria can survive for weeks to months on the Moon. This finding highlights the need to control the risk of humans inadvertently transferring microorganisms from Earth to the Moon during future exploration missions.
A recent research by NASA triggered a new alert for future missions to the Moon. This is because some microorganisms associated with human beings could survive in the extreme conditions of the Moon’s South Pole. The finding takes on special importance before the return of manned missions to the satellite. The arrival of astronauts not only represents an advance for space exploration, but also the risk of introducing terrestrial organisms into pl…
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