Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

Across northern Arizona and the southern Colorado Plateau, springs are facing rapid declines in flow. Nearly half of these springs now only flow part time. Arizona has more than 11,000 known springs.

Researchers have tested protenemata, brood cells and sporophytes of Physcomitrium patens under simulated space environments, ...

On Earth, mosses can flourish in some of the most extreme environments. But they're even tougher than we thought. They can ...

Moss spores survived an extended stay on the outside of the ISS and remained capable of germinating once back on Earth. Their ...

Tardigrades shocked scientists in 2008 by surviving 10 days in low Earth orbit. A simple plant has outdone the hardy water ...

While lunar gardens are still out of reach, the study sheds more light on terrestrial biology that may not be limited to our ...