Securing sustainable food supplies is a key challenge for long-term human exploration and potential habitation of the moon.

Will the path to growing rice on the Moon soon open? A Japanese research team has developed a technology to cultivate rice ...

How will astronauts grow food during long-term missions to the Moon? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the prospect of ...

In-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) for lunar construction refers to the development and application of techniques that employ materials found on the Moon to build habitats, infrastructure and support ...

The root of a chickpea plant grows in a lunar soil simulant mixture inside a climate-controlled growth chamber at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, U.S., in this handout image. Jessica ...

Denizhan Yavas, assistant teaching professor of mechanical engineering at Rice. As space agencies and private companies look toward sustained human presence on the moon, a fundamental challenge ...

Each robot competing this week must navigate a lunar regolith simulant — engineered lunar-analog soil produced at the University of Central Florida's Florida Space Institute Exolith Lab, which ...

Between the Artemis Program, the ESA's Moon Village, and the Sino-Russian International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), the next step in space exploration is clear: we're going back to the moon, and ...

A Chickpea root establishes in sharp, glass-like lunar regolith simulant, illustrating one of the major physical challenges for growing crops beyond Earth. Photo by Jessica Atkin. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...