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 ...

Jessica Atkin knows more than anyone else about what it would take to supply food for a moon base. She reveals how to build a ...

Schematic illustration of a plasma-based lunar agriculture system. Air is used as a raw material, and plasma generated by electricity from solar cells is utilized to synthesize N₂O₅. The synthesized ...

Rice grown on the Moon? No, this is not something out of science fiction, but a future possibility thanks to a plasma technology developed by Tohoku ...

How will future inhabitants on Mars and the Moon get their veggies? Northern Arizona University doctoral candidate Laura Lee ...

Abstract: Long-distance teleoperation will enable forthcoming scientific and commercial developments on the lunar surface such as in-situ resource utilisation. However, the large distances involved in ...

‘Magnificent desolation.’ That’s how Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the Moon, described the landscape of our nearest cosmic neighbour, back in 1969. I couldn’t agree more. There’s no vegetation in ...