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 ...

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.

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

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

A study by scientists from Johns Hopkins University has shown that microbes trapped in asteroid debris can migrate to other planets, including Earth, and survive. This was reported on March 3 by the ...

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.

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

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

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