Scientists Discover New Microbe on China’s Tiangong Space Station Written 22 May 2025
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Chinese Tiangong Space Station (Phase 1). | Credit: Shujianyang; Wikipedia; CC BY-SA 4.0
SPACE reports, “Scientists have discovered a previously unknown strain of microbe after analyzing samples taken from China’s Tiangong space station. The new microbe strain, officially named Niallia tiangongensis, was found in microbial samples collected from the surfaces of Tiangong during the Shenzhou 15 crewed mission, which returned to Earth in June 2023.”
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