Securing sustainable food supplies is a key challenge for long-term human exploration and potential habitation of the moon.
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Japanese team grows rice in lunar soil using air and electricity
Will humanity soon be able to farm rice on the Moon? A Japanese research team has developed 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 ...
WASHINGTON — If the idea of lunar hummus seems far-fetched, think again. Scientists working to cultivate the field of extraterrestrial agriculture have grown chickpeas in dirt made mostly of simulated ...
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 ...
Tiny pits, webbing patterns, and a dusting of nanoparticles are not what most people picture when they think about farming. Yet those small scars may end up mattering if you ever try to grow food on ...
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 ...
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 ...
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