Discover space-age technology for growing fresh food and get hands-on as you investigate how hydroponics systems can combat ...

Researchers at Purdue spent years working with NASA engineers to figure out how to grow crops on Mars and beyond. Now the ...

On Monday, Expedition 44 crew members aboard the International Space Station harvested a crop of “Outredgeous” red romaine lettuce from its orbiting laboratory, Veggie. The development could not only ...

Extreme weather events, from heavy rainfall to heat waves and droughts, are increasingly threatening crop yields globally, so ...

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 ...

How can food crops be adapted to living on the Moon? This is what a recent study presented at the Society for Experimental Biology Annual Conference in Antwerp, Belgium hopes to address as a team of ...

Tea plants can be grown in the Moon’s soil ... inhabitants of such bases some degree of autonomy and access to fresh food. “We are at the very earliest stages of research into space agriculture but it ...

Troy Miller receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Farley Kwok van der Giezen receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Ryan Coates receives funding from the Australian ...