Patens), to the exterior of the International Space Station, and their findings, published in iScience, state that they not ...

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When ultraviolet light hits ice—whether in Earth's polar regions or on distant planets—it triggers a cascade of chemical ...

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In 2022, a species of moss survived for nine months outside the International Space Station (ISS), enduring the harsh ...

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

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

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

Researchers discovered that moss spores can survive nearly a year exposed directly to space. Despite intense UV radiation and temperature swings, most spores remained viable when returned to Earth.

The discovery could serve as a starting point for constructing ecosystems in extraterrestrial environments such as the Moon ...

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 ...

Space is a harsh environment: it's a vacuum with freezing temperatures, super high ultraviolet radiation and, of course, ...