Imagine biting into a crisp, garden-fresh salad and savoring juicy strawberries for dessert. But instead of your backyard, ...

Thale cress, a small flowering plant, has been grown in lunar regolith – the powdery material on the surface of the moon – for the first time, using samples collected during the Apollo 11, 12 and 17 ...

Researchers grew plants in soil — from the moon — for the first time ever, according to a new study. Scientists from the University of Florida showed that plants can grow in lunar soil, according to a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts. Researchers had no idea if anything would sprout in the harsh moon ...

Humans are once again headed to the Moon. This return to the Moon means we will, for the first time, witness humans not only visiting, but living and working on the Moon. We will witness our ...

The study is paramount to NASA’s long-term goals in human space exploration, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said in a press release. The research could also have implications for plants growing in ...

Monica Grady is Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University. She receives funding from the STFC and the UK Space Agency. She is Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University and a ...

COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Feeding future missions to the moon? It might seem like an out-of-this-world goal, but some Lowcountry high school students have been working to gather data as part of ...