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

Japan launches Asia's first and only osmotic power plant, which generates energy 24 hours a day using salt water.

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

A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...

The researchers simulated space conditions by exposing the three tissues to UV radiation and freezing and high temperatures.

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

Space is a harsh environment: it's a vacuum with freezing temperatures, super high ultraviolet radiation and, of course, almost no oxygen. But Japanese researchers have found a type of moss that doesn ...

The moss was attached to the International Space Station, fully exposed to the harsh environment of the cosmos. Not only did ...

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

Mosses thrive in the most extreme environments on Earth, from the peaks of the Himalayas to the sands of Death Valley, the ...

Pont encourages the collaboration of generational ecological knowledge with scientific understanding, in the hope of ...

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