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 ...
Earth.com

Building-sized asteroid may strike the Moon in 2032

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.
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.
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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 ...

‘City-Killer’ Asteroid Threat: Could thousands of undetected space rocks hit Earth? Here’s what’s keeping NASA Scientists awake at night

Space agencies maintain that global cooperation and sustained investment are vital to planetary defence. While the DART ...

DART's asteroid impact produced debris cloud - watch its evolution over 1 month

The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...
Daily Journal Online

This Madison County Geologist says we don’t need space to mine asteroids

In Madison and nearby southeast Missouri counties, William Jud, a Fredericktown geologist, may have identified a buried ...
Science Daily

Massive asteroid impact 6.3 million years ago left giant glass field in Brazil

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...