Life Can Travel Through Space! But Only Under Certain Conditions…
Scientists have found a new condition in which life can travel through space! Read more…
Earth’s Seven Cousins
Is there a planetary system out there like our own that could have a planet that harbors life? Check out today’s guest post written by Madison Lee to learn about this interesting system!
A Galaxy Infected with Life?
Can life hop from planet to planet like a virus in an epidemic? Can we even detect whether this has happened?
Seeding Life on Other Worlds
Can life spread from Earth to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn on rock ejected from meteoroid collisions? The authors of this paper start on answering this question by asking if ejected material from Earth can even reach the gas giants’ moons. The answer is yes, so it’s possible that microbial Earthlings have already traveled a lot farther than human ones.