A NASA plant experiment, which consisted of growing and harvesting chile peppers in space, broke a record for feeding the most astronauts from a crop grown in space. The experiment also made history ...

The Trichoderma Associated Space Tomato Inoculation Experiment is a study where researchers are investigating tomato plant growth patterns in a microgravity environment, project co-investigator and ...

PWM stands for Plant Water Management. A novel way to use hydroponics to grow plants in space – no earth (lower case ?) required! As demonstrated here by Mark (who has great pedagogical skills), and ...

Image: The Plants in Space habitat aboard the International Space Station. A unique science project designed to sow the excitement of scientific discovery in students is sprouting this week aboard the ...

The idea of growing plants in space once sounded like a far-off dream, but modern scientific advancements have brought it closer to reality. This achievement is not only about enjoying the sight of ...

I don’t care how you prune your tomato plants. But if you prune them, the suckers present an interesting opportunity. New plants. One more weird thing about tomato plants is that they can create ...

Science projects are often a cool thing for students to do, but a group of high schoolers on Long Island are taking their experiment a step beyond: They are sending it into outer space. The students ...

Someday, astronauts may grow food efficiently in space and use plants to clean spaceship air, thanks to a two-year experiment scheduled aboard the International Space Station. The next space shuttle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station harvested chile peppers for the second time. The plant-growing experiment ...