https://newatlas.com/biology/tardigrades-gun-life-asteroid/Tardigrades are some of the toughest lifeforms ever discovered, and it’s been proposed that they (or similar organisms) could seed life through the cosmos by hitching rides on asteroids. Now, researchers at the University of Kent have tested the hypothesis by firing tardigrades from a gas gun into sand, and checking how well they survived.
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