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 ...

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 ...

EARTH has already been invaded — by us. That’s the theory. Aussie astronomers have questioned if life has crossed the interstellar void. Monash University’s Professor John Lattanzio has told the ...

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” ...

The panspermia hypothesis posits that life on Earth originated from extraterrestrial "seeds" of life. Proposed mechanisms for the transport of these life "seeds" include meteorites, comets, and ...

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 ...

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 ...