Tag: panspermia

  • Science & Tech

    Spreading seeds of life

    Scientists at the Institute for Theory and Computation have made a comprehensive calculation suggesting that panspermia could happen, and have found that as many as 10 trillion asteroid-sized objects might exist that carry life.

    Idan Ginsburg at Harvard College Observatory.
  • Science & Tech

    Interstellar seeds could create oases of life

    Within the next generation, it should become possible to detect signs of life on planets orbiting distant stars, say researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics