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

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

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

Some bacteria can take a punch that would crush a submarine. In a new set of impact tests, one desert microbe, Deinococcus ...

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 ...

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

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds. The work demonstrates that ...

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

Samples from Ryugu, a small, near-Earth asteroid, preserve natural remanent magnetization (NRM) from the early history of the solar system. However, despite multiple studies, there is currently no ...

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 140-foot asteroid is set to sweep past Earth today, and it seems everyone is taking notice. Astronomers have been tracking the space rock, officiall.

Asteroid mining offers burgeoning opportunities driven by advancements in space tech, rising space missions, and demand for ...