Moss has the potential to provide food for astronauts of the future, according to a study that exposed one of Earth's oldest ...

A species of moss survived for 9 months on the outside of the International Space Station, new research reveals — and 80% of ...

Plants can be quite tough—they’ll survive forgetful caretakers, aggressive pets, and other potentially life-threatening ...

To see, Fujita’s team turned to Physcomitrium patens, a well-studied species moss commonly called spreading earthmoss. They ...

Common moss spores survived nine months bolted to the outside of the International Space Station, paving the way toward space ...

When people talk about terraforming planets, they don’t usually think of moss as a tool, but perhaps we’ve been underrating ...

In 2005, scientists announced that moss could grow inside of spaceships. The little plants the scientists sent up on NASA ...

Spores of moss reportedly survived its nearly a year outside experience in space on the International Space Station and ...

Moss is known as a plant that can thrive in extreme environments on Earth, such as the Himalayas, deserts, Antarctic tundra, ...

So, they sent some sporophytes to the ISS. Astronauts affixed the samples to the station's exterior, where they remained for ...

Mosses, like the tardigrades of the plant world, are known to withstand extreme conditions, including harsh radiation and ...

Astronauts strapped moss spores to the outside of the International Space Station for nine months - and most of them survived the challenging experience ...