{"id":243710,"date":"2026-09-06T05:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/nasa-finds-earth-microbes-could-survive-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2026-09-06T05:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:04:52","slug":"nasa-finds-earth-microbes-could-survive-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/nasa-finds-earth-microbes-could-survive-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"NASA finds Earth microbes could survive on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-finds-earth-microbes-could-survive-on-the-moon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA scientists found that microbes brought by astronauts could survive in cold, shadowed niches around the Moon\u2019s South Pole, potentially complicating future searches for pristine lunar chemistry. Some refuges may be no larger than a footprint, while one hardy fungus could even withstand limited exposure to sunlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA scientists found that microbes brought by astronauts could survive in cold, shadowed niches around the Moon\u2019s South Pole, potentially complicating future searches for pristine lunar chemistry. Some refuges may be no larger than a footprint, while one hardy fungus could even withstand limited exposure to sunlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}