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

The idea that life can spread from world to world dates as far back as ancient Greece and the philosopher Anaxagoras.

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

THESE PLANETS ARE WEIRD! Humanity has long looked up into the night sky and wondered what all those twinkling lights above us really were. With the discovery of the telescope we began to identify ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

This artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet’s equator. With a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a ...

Astronomy on Tap St. Louis is back on June 14 for a night of cosmic fun! Join us for a public science event featuring exciting space talks, interactive trivia, and prizes – no science background ...

Astronomers have identified a wildly distorted world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed citrus fruit, and it is rewriting what I thought I knew about how planets form and survive.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ST. JOSEPH, Mo.— The Bushman Planetarium at Missouri Western State University is giving residents and astrology fans the chance to ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo.— The Bushman Planetarium at Missouri Western State University is giving residents and astrology fans the chance to explore the cosmos this week. The Bushman Planetarium in St. Joseph ...