Astronauts from NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and the European Space Agency gathered with flight surgeons and support ...

If we could farm in space, astronauts would have fresh, familiar foods. Those plants could recycle air and water. Plus, it feels good to be around plants. Once more people – and maybe even cats – can ...

What would it take for humans to survive hundreds of years while traveling between the stars? From cryosleep to megaships and ...

From deep-sea hydrothermal vents to freezing glaciers, there are plenty of harsh environments on Earth. The most recent ...

The spores’ thick outer walls acted like built-in shields, helping them withstand extreme radiation and temperature swings ...

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

A study to see how moss would fare in the extreme environment of space has left scientists “genuinely astonished” after the ...

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

May 1 -- The survival of thousands of worms — part of a scientific experiment aboard Columbia — is one of the few bright spots for scientists since the Feb. 1 breakup of the space shuttle. The ...

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