Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds. The work demonstrates that a certain ...

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New research shows that some frozen moons may hide boiling oceans beneath their icy shells, shaping strange surface features.

UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the ...

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Sifting through 180,000 observations, the team found a single event. We may have detected a whistler wave on the Red Planet.

Hearty bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.