Turn Up the Heat: Bacterial Spores Can Take Temperatures in the Hundreds of Degrees New research makes panspermia—the spreading of life from one planet to another—more likely.

In the third episode of Star Trek: Discovery, the spacecraft’s resident mushroom expert, astromycologist Lieutenant Paul Stamets, casually references a bizarre-sounding theory as he argues to ...

These dormant life-forms may then travel for an extended amount of time before colliding randomly with other planets. One argument that supports the panspermia theory is the emergence of life soon ...

The theory of panspermia is based on the notion that life forms exist throughout the entire universe. They can travel between planets via space dust, meteors, asteroids, comets, planetoids, and ...

Panspermia is the theory that life could have traveled between planets aboard meteoroids or comets. Is it possible that life on Earth may have originally come from somewhere else, such as Mars?

Here we sat at a Terre Haute Torpedo’s swim meet and an avid mushroom hunter sat down next to me, so “here goes” on his theories on mushrooms. Jim Mattick lives for mushroom season. Jim ...