The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed our lunar companion is safe for now from an asteroid impact.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032?

Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that Deinococcus radiodurans bacteria can survive the massive pressures of an asteroid ...

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

Can life transport between planets from impacts? This is what a recent study published in PNAS Nexus hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated | Space ...

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 ...