In a small desert town, dozens of unsuspecting people suddenly drop dead from a mysterious plague. The infectious agent has come from outer space; it has no known cure, and the U.S. government must ...

A review of archives suggests that efforts to protect Earth from contamination by any organism brought back from the lunar surface were mostly for show. By Sarah Scoles When the astronauts of Apollo ...

Just weeks after becoming the first man to walk on the moon, NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong celebrated his 39th birthday in quarantine. It's something all of us have experienced after a year of ...

After splashdown on July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts donned Biological Isolation Garments and went immediately into quarantine until August 10, 1969. This was a precaution against any potential ...

NASA officials overestimated their ability to contain alien microbes after the first moon landing, a new analysis suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...