In the year 2557, a team of 6 astronauts are sent to Mars to survey and capture a cockroach sample to see how they have evolved over the years, and find out why every probe they have sent has ...

But on Mars, it might have been crucial. ... Really, the best thing you can say about it—on Earth, anyway—is that it can kill cockroaches in its acid form. But on Mars?

An Apollo 11 experiment included feeding cockroaches lunar soil. Now, pieces of that research are up for auction. Moon dust, extracted from the stomachs of cockroaches, could sell for as much as ...