“Looking to the future, we expect that this promising moss could be brought to Mars or the moon to further test the possibility of plant colonization and growth in outer space ...

Scientists have discovered that a type of desert moss found in Antarctica can survive the extreme conditions of Mars, making it a promising candidate for colonising the planet. The moss ...

CUBES is focused on cutting-edge biotechnology to optimize food and plant-made therapeutics in space, as well as to enable production of biomaterials and energy. "It will take more than a year to get ...

On Earth, plants make the majority of the oxygen supply. On Mars there's a chicken-and-egg ... for larger plants like grasses and mosses to grow. The bad news is that scientists estimate that ...