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Did life from Mars arrive on Earth through an asteroid? New evidence surfaces

A new study has provided compelling evidence that life from Mars could have arrived on Earth by hitching a ride on debris ejected during asteroid impacts. The research, led by scientists at Johns ...

Asteroid Impacts Could Launch Living Microbes From Mars

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

Martian microbes can survive being blasted into space by a large asteroid strike

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

Microbes Could Survive an Asteroid Impact and Hitchhike on Debris Between Planets, Including Mars and Earth

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

Blasted off Mars and still alive

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

Life forms can planet hop on asteroid debris—and survive

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

Could Life on Earth Have Descended From Microbes That Traveled From Mars Long Ago?

Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...
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Microbes may hitchhike across the solar system via asteroid debris, study finds

Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to ...

Life Can Planet Hop on Asteroid Debris

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