Moss spores survived an extended stay on the outside of the ISS and remained capable of germinating once back on Earth. Their resilience to vacuum, extreme temperatures, and UV radiation surprised the ...

Despite their name, clubmosses are not true mosses. They are the oldest group of vascular plants, which have specialized ...

If humans are to expand our habitat beyond Earth’s bounds, we will undoubtedly need the support of plant life: to remove ...

The hostile immensity of space, with its absolute vacuum and deadly radiation, seems to forbid any form of life. Yet, a modest inhabitant of our planet challenges this implacable logic.

Researchers sent moss spores into outer space, and after nine months they returned to Earth ready to grow. Physcomitrium ...

Structural studies of the robust material called sporopollenin reveal how it made plants hardy enough to reproduce on dry land. When Fu-Shuang Li, a biochemist and research scientist at the Whitehead ...