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

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

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

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

Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that Deinococcus radiodurans bacteria can survive the massive pressures of an asteroid ...

A new study has provided compelling evidence that life from Mars could have arrived on Earth by hitching a ride on debris ...