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

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

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

"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 interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving our solar system. See new photos from the a European Space Agency orbiter on its way to Jupiter.

Asteroid impacts may catapult life from one planet to another, as new research claims that hardy bacteria can survive the ...

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 ...

Helium-3 dating reveals new plankton species emerged within thousands—and sometimes just 2,000—years after the dinosaur-killing impact, showing life recovered far faster than assumed.

This meant subjecting microbes to minimum pressures equivalent to ten times those of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...

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 ...

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