Can life spread throughout a galaxy like the Milky Way without technological intervention? That question is largely unanswered. A new…
A remarkable microbe named Deinococcus radiodurans (the name comes from the Greek deinos meaning terrible, kokkos meaning grain or berry,…
A new study by a team astrobiologists shows how certain types of extreme bacteria thrive on meteors, which could reveal…
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics addresses the possibility of panspermia on a galactic (and intergalactic) scale