Boffins say we've finally 'found' aliens - and they look like green moss

A plant spent nine months growing on the outside of the International Space Station in orbit 250 miles above Earth and is regarded as the first example of an alien life form The good news is we've found an 'alien' life form - the bad news is it's moss (Image: Tomomichi Fujita / SWNS)

ET looks like green moss. Boffins can claim to have finally found alien life after the plant spent nine months growing on the outside of the International Space Station in orbit 250 miles above Earth.

Though it was put there by mankind the moss survived and continued to grow in the extraterrestrial environment. It could be regarded as the first example of an alien lifeform.

The bombshell was revealed in a new study by researchers from Hokkaido University in Japan. They exposed moss spores to the har