Moss spores have just joined the short list of life forms proven to withstand the raw vacuum of space for months at a time, surviving unshielded on the exterior of the International Space Station and ...

Mosses thrive in the most extreme environments on Earth, from the peaks of the Himalayas to the sands of Death Valley, the Antarctic tundra to the lava fields of active volcanoes. Inspired by moss's ...

A study led by Tomomichi Fujita investigated the survivability of the extremophile moss *Physcomitrium patens* in space, a critical inquiry for establishing extraterrestrial human habitats. Pre-flight ...

Moss has survived nine months exposed to outer space. The simple plant continued to thrive in the vacuum of space during an experiment conducted on the exposure facility of the International Space ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. A species of moss, ‘Physcomitrium patens.’ A new study has found that the reddish-brown spores visible inside the moss ...

Old military air samples turned out to be a treasure trove of biological DNA, allowing scientists to track moss spores over ...

In 2005, scientists announced that moss could grow inside of spaceships. The little plants the scientists sent up on NASA Space Shuttle missions grew in a breathtakingly weird shape, a sort of fuzzy ...

The moss even made it back to Earth after 283 days - still capable of reproducing. And scientists calculated that the spores could have survived for up to 5,600 days - around 15 years - in space. The ...

A reddish-brown sporophyte can be seen at the top center of a leafy gametophore. This capsule contains numerous spores inside. (Tomomichi Fujita via SWNS) By Stephen Beech Moss has survived nine ...