"The fact that terrestrial microbes are the Earth's best colonizers means we can never completely discount terrestrial ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

What if Earth were furious with humanity? What if revolutionaries took their cues from an unruly planet? Anne ...

The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 delivered samples of the asteroid Ryugu to Earth back in 2020, and since then, teams of ...

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...

The mini-moon 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away ...

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A temporary “mini- moon ” orbiting the Earth for the last two months drifted away on Tuesday, resuming its journey around the ...

The samples were collected by Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, which launched in December 2014 and successfully rendezvoused ...

Asteroid Ryugu was altered by water and contains organic molecules older than the Sun. The building blocks of RNA and Vitamin ...

Results of the study determined that terrestrial biota had rapidly colonized ... to collect extraterrestrial material originates on a planet awash in microbial life. NASA tries to avoid ...