Wherever Humans Go, We Take Hitchhikers #biology #space #evolution

A previously unknown species of bacteria was collected on China’s Tiangong space station and returned to Earth in 2023. You read that right – an aerobic, spore-forming, rod-shaped bacteria was living on a hardware surface inside the space station. This isn’t the first time, won’t be the last, and strikes me as inevitable. Astronauts carry […]