A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

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

A remarkably hardy bacterium can survive pressures similar to those generated when asteroid impacts blast debris off Mars, a ...

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

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

If any organism could survive getting catapulted off the surface of Mars and drifting through interplanetary space, this would be the one. The question was whether it could handle the initial violence ...

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In ...

Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to ...

Can life transport between planets from impacts? This is what a recent study published in PNAS Nexus hopes to address as a ...