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 ...

The NASA Twins Study published in 2019 compared biological changes in identical twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly. 1 The former spent a year on the International Space Station (ISS) and the latter ...

Mizuna mustard plants grow inside plant pillows in the Vegetable Production System, also known as Veggie, on the International Space Station. Credits: NASA It’s a maxim drilled into us at a young age: ...

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 ...

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 ...

It looks like some kind of seed pod or pine cone caught mid-explosion. At the center, there’s a jumble of trumpets-turned-terraria—conical containers for space-going plants—and from this central core ...

A plant-growth study is one of three experiments that the Artemis 3 astronauts are expected to deploy on the lunar surface. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...