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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 ...
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.
However, for “panspermia” to have any credence requires proof that bacteria could survive a long journey through the vacuum, temperature fluctuations, and intense UV radiation in outer space ...
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 ...
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?
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 ...
Hitchhiking aliens are already traveling between planets, new research suggests EXCLUSIVE: Astronomers were able to identify a group of neighboring planets that possess similar characteristics to ...
Scientists are testing whether ancient life from Earth—like hardy microbes—could survive the harsh conditions of space, potentially supporting the theory that life spreads between planets ...
Proponents of panspermia theory say life on Earth came from elsewhere, hitching a ride on rocks sheared from other worlds or from migratory asteroids. But what if life did originate here and then ...