Researchers smashed an extremophile bacterium with steel plates to simulate an asteroid impact — and found it nearly impossible to kill, adding some credence to the theory that life could travel between planets. Hardy bacteria could survive the trip from one planet to another, hidden among the debris from an asteroid impact, a new study suggests, providing possible evidence for a theory that the seeds of life arrived on Earth from outer space. In a paper pub... [6967 chars]
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