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A new modelling study finds that roughly 100 microbial cells per year may be delivered to Venus's clouds via rock ejected from Earth by asteroid impacts, suggesting that if life is ever discovered in the Venusian atmosphere, it could have originated on Earth.

Did Earth life actually begin on Mars? Asteroid impacts could let microbes planet-hop, study suggests

Asteroid Impacts Could Launch Living Microbes From Mars

Mars is more prone to devastating asteroid impacts than we thought, new study hints

Venus Needed Asteroid Impacts to Get its Volcanoes Going