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

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

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

China’s Tianwen-2 probe operating normally on approach to asteroid China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is operating normally on its way to a near-Earth asteroid ahead of sampling later this year, according ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

A SpaceX Starlink launch had residents questioning a strange blue blob in the sky as they walked outside early Wednesday morning.

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets – including Earth – and survive, a new Johns Hopkins ...

It was likely debris from Kosmos 482 — a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 as part of a mission to Venus. The launch failed. The probe never made it to its ...

With the Earth moving between the moon and the sun, its giant shadow changing the moon's reflected glow from ivory to a reddish color.

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 ...