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 ...

Floating 250 miles above Earth, astronauts aboard the International Space Station aren't just orbiting, they're gardening. In a place with no up or down, no soil beneath their feet, and the vacuum of ...

Jess Bunchek, an associate scientist at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, observes plant cultivars inside the Veggie growth chamber in the Space Station Processing Facility prior to harvesting ...

Researchers at the UC Davis, have been awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to develop new technologies and workforce training programs to grow plants in low-resource environments ...

STUDENTS AT WINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY ARE A PART OF HISTORY. THEY ARE PROVIDING PLANT SAMPLES TO THE BLUE ORIGIN SPACE FLIGHT THAT WILL BLAST OFF MONDAY MORNING. NOT TO MENTION WITH THE FIRST ...

Spaceflight presents a distinctive set of challenges for plant biology, as microgravity, cosmic radiation and limited resource availability impose conditions vastly different from those on Earth.

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said boots were imminent on the red planet. But chile — red or ...