A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.
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Blue Origin outlines asteroid defense concept using New Glenn
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, already selected to carry NASA science missions to Mars, is drawing attention as a potential ...
Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.
Even 200 years after asteroid 16 Psyche was discovered, astronomers continue to puzzle over its formation. Psyche is the 10th ...
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 a certain ...
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Microbes may hitchhike across the solar system via asteroid debris, study finds
Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to ...
A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In ...
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Did Earth life actually begin on Mars? Asteroid impacts could let microbes planet-hop, study suggests
"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another." ...
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Asteroid collisions may propel living microbes from Mars
Collisions with asteroids on Mars could do more than create massive craters—they might actually send living microbes into outer space. Recent studies on the resilient bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans ...
Before the Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully collected two samples from Ryugu—a carbon-rich asteroid that orbits the sun ...
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Bus-sized asteroid will fly past Earth tonight mere days after being discovered. Here's what to expect
Asteroid 2026 EG1 was discovered on March 8, less than one week ago.
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