Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This article is more than 5 years old. "Lithopanspermia" ...

In the third episode of Star Trek: Discovery, the spacecraft’s resident mushroom expert, astromycologist Lieutenant Paul Stamets, casually references a bizarre-sounding theory as he argues to Michael ...

Artist's impression of the ISO 1I/2017 U1 'Oumuamua, detected on October 19th, 2017, by the Pan-STARRS survey. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser On October 19, 2017, astronomers with the Pan-STARRS survey ...

We often wonder whether there are aliens on other planets but what if we ourselves are aliens on the planet we call home? Panspermia, the “controversial” theory that life “began elsewhere in space” ...

Monash University’s Professor John Lattanzio has told the annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia hosted at Swinburne University this week that he thinks this may be so. The idea is ...

The Earth is beaming with life and yet there is no consensus on how life arose or what life is. The origin of life is "one of the great unsolved mysteries of science" (Crick, F. Life Itself). While ...

Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics recently released a study claiming that panspermia, an astronomical theory that life is exchanged between planets within solar systems, ...

The notion of panspermia - the transferral of viable organisms between planets, and even between star systems, seems to be getting a bit more attention these days. One only has to open this previous ...

Scientists have long debated the possibility of that the microbial seeds of life did not originate on Earth, but were perhaps delivered here from an alien source, encased in comets or meteorites from ...