More information: David Cao et al, The Implications of 'Oumuamua on Panspermia, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.02390 Journal information: arXiv ...

A new study published in July 2025 tackles one of science's most profound mysteries—how did life first emerge from nonliving ...

Their discovery boosts the theory of panspermia, which suggests that life, or its building blocks, could be flying around space just waiting to impact a world with the right conditions to help it ...

The theory of panspermia is based on the notion that life forms exist throughout the entire universe. They can travel between planets via space dust, meteors, asteroids, comets, planetoids, and ...

When the space shuttle Columbia broke apart during reentry Feb. 1, 2003, more than 80 on-board science experiments were lost in the fiery descent. Texas State University-San Marcos biologist ...