Ensuring that plants receive the nourishment they need through proper irrigation is an age-old challenge for farmers here on Earth. It is also a challenge in space. NASA is one step closer to ...

Newswise — Astronauts on long space missions may one day use plants to produce fresh stocks of medicines on demand, thanks to new research by engineers at the University of California San Diego. The ...

Imagine biting into a crisp, garden-fresh salad and savoring juicy strawberries for dessert. But instead of your backyard, you're gazing out at a stark lunar landscape, Earth hanging like a precious ...

Sometime in the 2040s, humans may well reach a new frontier—Mars. To get there, we'll need sustainable sources of food, medicines and materials. But science can do both. And space research has a long ...

When astronauts embark on long-duration missions in the future, crews will grow food to supplement what they can bring with them. More than 20 years of continuously living and working in space aboard ...

In 2017, a fully automated facility for plant bioscience research was launched to the International Space Station. The ...

Studies of plants and their responses to gravity and the space environment have concentrated on three main themes. The first is space horticulture, the study of how to grow plants successfully in ...

Astronauts on long space missions may one day use plants to produce fresh stocks of medicines on demand, thanks to new research by engineers at the University of California San Diego. The team ...

Could we start growing plants in space? Using fungus and worms, we might be able to grow legumes and other plants from toxic lunar soil. At the heart of humanity’s grand odyssey into the cosmos lies a ...

How can plants help produce pharmaceuticals for future astronauts? This is what a recent study published in npj Science of Plants hopes to address as a team of scientists from the University of ...