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

Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

In an effort to explain how life started on Earth billions of years ago, some scientists have suggested that microbes — or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some exoplanets, like the one shown in this illustration, may have atmospheres that could make them potentially suitable for life.

In this thought-provoking talk, biologist Betül Kaçar explores a radical idea: what if humans could spark life on other planets? By studying ancient DNA and recreating early chemical environments in ...

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes of science. Now a mix of genetic clues, asteroid samples and tough little ...