Panspermia

A planet with a thick atmosphere. Image: NASA

Did pre-living molecules form in the atmospheres of distant planets?

A living creature discovered at a height of 27 kilometers in the atmosphere. Did it come from space? Photo: University of Sheffield

Living creatures from space or just drifting?

Synthesis of hydrocarbon starting materials as a result of the impact of simple glacial mixtures on the ancient Earth. Image: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories at UC Berkeley

Is the origin of life on Earth extraterrestrial?

Simulating the migration of life between different solar systems. Illustration: Edward Belbruno, Princeton University

Did rocks from planets orbiting other stars seed life on Earth

Professor Richard B. Hoover, an expert on carbonaceous meteorites and an astrobiologist in the service of NASA

Bacteria from another world were discovered in the meteorite

Does the atmosphere of Venus allow the existence of life? (Photo: NASA)

Astrobiology: Could there be life in space?

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Panspermia: flower power

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We owe our lives to the comets

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The sweet milky way

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Mining molecules in distant dust clouds

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Now the scientists confirm - the origin of life from space

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Where did intelligent life come from?

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Did life originate on comets?

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Earth might have seeded Titan with life

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Spitzer found elements of life in the young universe

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Comets spread life

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Alien bacteria can survive a crash landing

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Earth scatters seeds of life in space

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Bacteria roam the galaxy and spread life

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Are bacteria falling on us from space?

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The survival formula

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The November meteor shower contained organic material

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Our ancestors may still have been from the Adimites