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

Scientists uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil—a rare type of natural glass forged in the aftermath of meteorite ...

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

Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to ...

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

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged ...

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

There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.

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

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

A factual look at projections of a potential 2032 asteroid impact on the Moon, including how scientists track near-Earth ...

More than 50,000 years ago, a meteor hit Earth and formed what we now call Meteor Crater in northern Arizona. But new ...