Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life ...

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In ...

"A meteor the size of a softball can produce a flash as bright as the full moon and qualify as a fireball," Lunsford said in ...

The extremophile bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans can survive the pressures developed during ejection from Mars as a result of massive asteroid impact. According to the authors, microorganisms can ...

Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...

Estimating the mass of a potentially dangerous asteroid remains a key parameter for planetary protection, but traditional radio frequency tracking methods do not allow accurate measurement of small ...

The extremophile bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans can survive the pressures developed during ejection from Mars as a result of massive asteroid ...

Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that Deinococcus radiodurans bacteria can survive the massive pressures of an asteroid ...

While aliens in science fiction hop between planets on vast spaceships, scientists say real-life extraterrestrials might take ...

US Astrologer Jill Brown tells HT how tomorrow's eclipse is a rare celestial event and what it means astrologically. | ...

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...