The organisms, which sit on a 'major new branch' of the tree of life, were found in woodland in Nova Scotia.
Robert Morton had been browsing a satellite map of Edinburgh when he spotted a submerged plane offshore.
After spending years unravelling the mysteries of the dwarf planet Ceres, Dawn has finally run out of fuel.
Harvard astronomers have suggested that the first known interstellar visitor could be an alien probe.
Daredevil climber Alain Robert has climbed up London's Heron Tower with no ropes or safety equipment.
Enough oxygen could exist within salty subsurface water on Mars to support oxygen-breathing microbes.
The ambitious new mission will see two satellites placed in to orbit around the closest planet to the Sun.
The plan would involve preserving the beneficial bacteria found in the guts of people from all across the world.
The unusually-shaped space rock made headlines back in 2015 when it passed the Earth on October 31st.
A new study has revealed that ancient Mars had the right conditions to support subterranean microbes.
A mere two months after beginning operations, NASA's TESS spacecraft has found two new extrasolar worlds.
NASA is investigating the possibility of sending a probe to Mars that could directly seek out alien life forms.
The probe, which is on a daring mission to the Sun, will become the fastest man-made object in history.
The Gendarmerie of Air Transport (GTA) has launched its own probe amid claims of a government cover-up.
Set to launch in December, the lander will touch down on the lunar surface in February of next year.
NASA's $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe will be venturing closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history.
NASA is launching a spacecraft to study the heliosphere - a bubble which extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
NASA's new spacecraft has returned a breathtaking two-second exposure which features over 200,000 stars.
The European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter will be starting its mission within the next two weeks.
NASA's Juno probe has been revealing more about Jupiter's internal structure than ever before.