The Panspermia hypothesis posits that either life’s building blocks (molecular Panspermia) or life itself (organism-based Panspermia) may have been interplanetary transferred to facilitate the Origins of Life (OoL) on a […]
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On The Force Of Vertical Winds In The Upper Atmosphere – Consequences For Small Biological Particles
For many decades vertical winds have been observed at high altitudes of the Earth’s atmosphere, in the mesosphere and thermosphere layers. These observations have been used with a simple one […]
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Sending Life To The Stars
No longer solely in the realm of science fiction, the possibility of interstellar travel has appeared, tantalizingly, on the horizon. Although we may not see it in our lifetimes — […]
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Possibility Of Transporting Material From Ceres To NEO Region Via 8:3 MMR With Jupiter
In this work we investigate the possibility of transporting material to the NEO region via the 8:3 MMR with Jupiter, potentially even material released from the dwarf planet Ceres. By […]
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Panspermia In A Milky Way-like Galaxy
We study the process of panspermia in Milky Way-like galaxies by modeling the probability of successful travel of organic compounds between stars harboring potentially habitable planets. To this end, we […]
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Transfer of Life Between Earth and Venus with Planet-Grazing Asteroids
Recently, phosphine was discovered in the atmosphere of Venus as a potential biosignature. This raises the question: if Venusian life exists, could it be related to terrestrial life? Based on […]
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Bacteria Could Survive Travel Between Earth And Mars When Forming Aggregates
Imagine microscopic life-forms, such as bacteria, transported through space, and landing on another planet. The bacteria finding suitable conditions for its survival could then start multiplying again, sparking life at […]
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Transfer of Life by Earth-Grazing Objects to Exoplanetary Systems
Recently, a 30 cm object was discovered to graze the Earth’s atmosphere and shift into a Jupiter-crossing orbit. We use the related survey parameters to calibrate the total number of […]
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Exporting Terrestrial Life Out of the Solar System with Gravitational Slingshots of Earthgrazing Bodies
Exporting terrestrial life out of the Solar System requires a process that both embeds microbes in boulders and ejects those boulders out of the Solar System. We explore the possibility […]
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Did Comet Impacts Jump-start Life On Earth?
Comets screaming through the atmosphere of early Earth at tens of thousands of miles per hour likely contained measurable amounts of protein-forming amino acids. Upon impact, these amino acids self-assembled […]