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

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

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

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

Some bacteria can take a punch that would crush a submarine. In a new set of impact tests, one desert microbe, Deinococcus ...

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

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

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

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

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