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.

Now, the Moon-Rice project, a collaborative effort led by the Italian Space Agency and three Italian universities, aims to develop a “super-dwarf” rice variety ideal for sustained space habitation and ...

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

Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is conducting experiments to understand how microgravity affects germination and early plant ...

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.

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.

Shubhanshu Shukla successfully grew ‘moong’ and ‘methi’ seeds in space to study how microgravity affects germination and early plant development.

In another fascinating study, Shukla conducted research on tardigrades, microscopic extremophiles renowned for surviving ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on board the ISS or months now. They've since taken up gardening. ... the pair are happily watering plants, ...