Scientists Discover A Meteorite-Munching Organism That Eats Space Rocks
Scientists have found a meteorite - munching microbe that thrives on the metals found in extraterrestrial rock candy that have crash - landed on Earth . NamedMetallosphaera sedula , astrobiologists are studying this microbe and its queer ability to infer energy from inorganic extraterrestrial sources . Their findings are print in the journalScientific Reportsthis week . M. sedulawas originally isolate from a volcanic field in Italy . It go to a domain of single - celled organism known as archae , which are not related to bacterium , viruses , brute , plants , or fungus ....