NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission conducts medical and plant research aboard the International Space Station to improve intravenous fluid systems, cardiovascular treatments, and food growth in ...

Biofilms essential for astronaut and plant health but weakened by space conditions like microgravity and radiation stress.

Now that NASA has found evidence of water on Mars, astronauts will test the growth of a small plant in Martian soil, thanks to students at Bellevue’s Open Window School. The experiment will be one of ...

New research outlines the steps necessary to use plants for full bioregenerative life-support systems. Such systems can sustain the presence of humans on extra-terrestrial surfaces.

A University of Southern Queensland-led space agriculture experiment is set to launch plants to the International Space Station as part of research to test their growth in outer space.

Plants could play a central role in sustaining human life on the Moon, Mars and beyond, according to a new international Viewpoint.

An Australian-led space plant experiment is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) tomorrow.

A butterfly completed metamorphosis about 400 kilometres above Earth’s surface. It emerged from its chrysalis aboard China’s ...

Bacteria incubated with bacteriophages in space accumulated distinct mutations compared to those on Earth, highlighting the effect of microgravity on microbes.