In a bold step toward sustainable space travel, scientists are engineering a radically small, protein-rich rice that can grow ...

Moon-Rice project develops super-dwarf, protein-rich rice varieties for space missions and extreme Earth environments.

IAF Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, India’s pioneering astronaut at the ISS, is set for a triumphant return following Axiom ...

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, who launched to the ISS in April, initiated the experiment, dubbed Plant Habitat-04 (PH-04). He's grown plants on the orbiting laboratory before, snacking on ...

Fix toilets, grow plants, call home: Stuck astronauts have 'constant to-do list' Astronauts tell USA TODAY what it's like to be stuck in space.

"The advantage of growing plants on the moon is not limited to providing food for the astronauts who live in the lunar base," study lead author Yitong Xia, of China Agricultural University in ...

Watch how China Shenzhou 14 crew cultivated plants using rice and Thale cress seeds on the Tiangong space station during ...

Earlier this month, tiny green plants sprouted on the moon. The plants arrived as cotton seeds, tucked inside of Chang’e 4, a Chinese spacecraft that had landed, in a historic first, on the far ...

Beyond that, plants are excellent multitaskers. They produce oxygen (perhaps the most vital substance on a space station) and recycle waste and water. Growing plants in space also lets us learn more ...

When astronauts are orbiting earth, it's often not chocolate they crave but a fresh, crunchy salad. Now a team of scientists is working to re-design plants to enable that to happen.

When NASA astronaut Scott Kelly announced the first zinnias blooming on the International Space Station, the project joined a long line of successful plants in space. Here, he photographed one of ...