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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 Michael ...

Khaberni - A new study reveals the possibility of microorganisms surviving harsh space travel, which re-poses questions about ...

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 ...

The theory of panspermia holds that life is spread through the cosmos via asteroids, comets, and other objects. When the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Scientists have long debated the possibility of that the microbial seeds of life did not originate on Earth, but were perhaps delivered here from an alien source, encased in comets or meteorites from ...

The notion of panspermia - the transferral of viable organisms between planets, and even between star systems, seems to be getting a bit more attention these days. One only has to open this previous ...