If you’ve spent a lot of time outdoors in New England, you’ve likely crossed paths with, and probably stepped on, lichens.

Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense radiation, and ...

A TOUGH lifeform could survive the brutal conditions of Mars. That’s the verdict from scientists who spent five hours ...

Red lichen marks can be seen among many of the monuments at Persepolis. Lichen secretes organic acids, particularly oxalic acid, which can dissolve minerals. It has wormed its way into stone ...

Researchers bombarded these hybrid lifeforms with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, ...

"If you've looked at lichens, you may have seen British soldiers with the red tips. That's a fruticose lichen. That's one that's upright. Fruticose are three dimensional," Pengel said. Enking ...

Lichens have survived Martian conditions in an unprecedented scientific experiment. This discovery opens new perspectives on the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Lichens, these ...

Researchers exposed two lichen species to Mars-like atmospheric conditions for five hours—and one performed impressively.

In a new paper, the team focused on whether a particularly hardy lifeform could survive on the Red Planet. "Lichens inhabit diverse ecosystems worldwide, but they are particularly crucial in ...

Much like “blood snow”—the red streaks found on some glaciers—the source is plant-based. The “blood rain” is actually a downpour of algae. It’s a type of lichen called Trentepohlia ...

This kind of radiation is extremely damaging, and is a serious threat to human plans for living on the red planet. But researchers writing in the journal IMA Fungus say they reckon lichens could ...