The intriguing findings bolster the theory that asteroids seeded the early Earth with life's chemical components - a process known as panspermia.

Panspermia suggests life can travel between worlds, but new research highlights a darker implication: contamination works ...

Artist's impression of the ISO 1I/2017 U1 'Oumuamua, detected on October 19th, 2017, by the Pan-STARRS survey. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser On October 19, 2017, astronomers with the Pan-STARRS survey ...

Monash University’s Professor John Lattanzio has told the annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia hosted at Swinburne University this week that he thinks this may be so. The idea is ...

The Earth is beaming with life and yet there is no consensus on how life arose or what life is. The origin of life is "one of the great unsolved mysteries of science" (Crick, F. Life Itself). While ...

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 Michael ...

Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics recently released a study claiming that panspermia, an astronomical theory that life is exchanged between planets within solar systems, ...

Japanese scientists found organic matter on a distant asteroid, supporting theories like panspermia that life’s building ...

Imagine tiny microscopic specks of life, on your computer screen, in the dirt, inside deep ocean trenches--everywhere. Sometimes, they seem so vulnerable and insignificant, yet precisely the opposite ...

EARTH has already been invaded — by us. That’s the theory. Aussie astronomers have questioned if life has crossed the interstellar void. Monash University’s Professor John Lattanzio has told the ...