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Asteroid impacts could catapult extraterrestrial life into space, experiment hints

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.
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Can we stop a ‘planet killer’ asteroid from hitting Earth? A NASA experiment tested it

A new study shows NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART mission subtly changed an asteroid system’s orbit around the Sun.
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Asteroid Deflection Experiment Triggered Unexpected Debris

Planetary scientists have published a detailed follow-up on the debris from their historic 2022 asteroid impact experiment in outer space. What they found challenges their understanding of the ...

Life forms can planet hop on asteroid debris—and survive

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

NASA demonstrates humanity may be able to stop an Earth-bound asteroid

Here's what scientists have now learned about the DART mission.

Asteroid Impacts Could Launch Living Microbes From Mars

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

Nuking a huge asteroid could save Earth, lab experiment suggests

Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, according to scientists who tested the theory in the laboratory by blasting ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Japan’s Experiment to Calculate an Asteroid’s Age Was a Smashing Success

Hayabusa2 deployed a camera to film the plume of regolith thrown up by the impact. Courtesy of JAXA Last April, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft created an artificial crater on the asteroid, Ryugu, by ...