For "Turn the Page with Colorado Matters," former NPR science reporter David Baron, of Boulder, talks about his new book, ...

Mbatata is the word in Chichewa for the dense, creamy variety of this starchy root vegetable. In Malawi, mbatata is typically ...

UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor works with LSU breeder to develop new sweet potato varieties for California ...

Local farmers, mixologists, and potato-spa innovators are welcoming travelers into their homes and businesses to tout the ...

It's a long trip to the red planet and space is tight, but eating well could require just a few simple ingredients.

As we inch closer to the reality of human missions to Mars, spearheaded by NASA’s Artemis program and SpaceX’s Starship ...

Nestled inside a beautifully preserved Oregon Short Line Railroad depot from 1912, the Idaho Potato Museum stands as a testament to tuber triumph, inviting curious visitors to explore the surprisingly ...

It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade since Matt Damon grew potatoes on Mars. What sounded like the setup for a late-night joke became one of the most ...

Space has always been this vast, mysterious, and out of reach playground for storytelling. It’s where humanity projects its biggest fears, wildest dreams, and most complex questions. When it comes to ...

A new analysis of chemical signatures measured by NASA's Curiosity Rover gives a peek at Mars's past to a time some 3.7 billion years ago, when it was warmer and wetter. Through measurements of ...

Mars may have a network of liquid water flowing through the frozen ground. All buried permafrost, on Earth and beyond, is expected to host narrow veins of liquid, and new calculations show on Mars, ...

The warmest parts of Mars host a strange, thick layer of ice beneath the surface, and we may have finally figured out how it got there. It might have been shifted from the inside of the planet by ...