Can microscopic life travel between planets and manage to survive? A new Johns Hopkins University study seems to suggest so. Hypothetically, if an asteroid hits a planet, certain bacteria might be ...

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 ...

When a massive asteroid slams into a planet, the impact can blast chunks of rock into space at incredible speeds. Some of those fragments can eventually land on other worlds, including Earth. But ...

Space debris falls to Earth from our Solar System all the time. Almost 91000 kilograms, or 100 tons per day, travels our way. So where does it all go? Well, most of it vaporizes in the atmosphere, ...

Can life transport between planets from impacts? This is what a recent study published in PNAS Nexus hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how microbes could have come to Earth via ...

Some bacteria can take a punch that would crush a submarine. In a new set of impact tests, one desert microbe, Deinococcus radiodurans, survived brief pressure spikes that could occur when rock gets ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's rendering of the Chicxulub asteroid entering Earth's atmosphere 66 million years ago, triggering events that caused a ...

After shooting the microbes, the team determined whether they survived and examined the survivors’ genetic material for clues to how they handled the pressure. The bacteria proved very hard to kill.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lab impacts show a tough microbe can survive pressures linked to rock ejection from Mars, supporting planet-hopping ideas. (CREDIT ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets - including Earth - and survive, a new study finds. (Nanowerk News) The work demonstrates that a certain hardy ...

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 ...