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

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.

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

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

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

Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to another world, including Earth, according to a ...

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

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

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

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.