February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... Life in Space’, where he first coined the term “panspermia”, derived from the Greek, meaning “seeds all”. Arrhenius... may have contributed to our biological diversity by panspermia and have followed a parallel evolutionary path uniquely positioned...
28 August 2020
Clumps of bacteria could survive interplanetary journey, new study says
... in space for a long period when benefitting from being shielded by rock; a concept known as lithopanspermia, meaning rocky panspermia. Using the dead outer colony members as shields gives raise to the possibility that bacteria could survive...
20 November 2019
Insects on Mars, fungi on Venus. Evidence is presented for life on our neighbouring planets
... are featured in the photos's Venera 13 took before succumbing to its quick demise. Joseph, who is an advocate of directed panspermia – a hypothesis which suggests that life on Earth did not originate on our planet, but was transported here...
