When astronauts are orbiting earth, it's often not chocolate they crave but a fresh, crunchy salad. Now a team of scientists is working to re-design plants to enable that to happen.

Their brainchild was granted Japanese-style space food status in November 2018 by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The mackerel can is marked by its viscosity reinforced by kudzu ...

We recently talked about 8 categories of space food designed for optimal nutrition of astronauts. While these categorizations have been made after so much advancement of technologies, have you ...

In a live stream Tuesday, he and other members of the NASA Expedition 72 crew pulled out a container of food, some of which then floated around them in the weightlessness of space. “We’ve got ...

Have you ever considered how they celebrate Christmas in space?

I don't know how I got to looking at vintage astronaut meals, but I did, and now, for whatever reason, I'm craving little cubes of food. Anyway, take a look at these dishes they ate in space ...

deep space exploration, the problem of food must be solved,' said Eric Pires of Western University in the UK, who published a paper titled 'Turning asteroids into food.' In addition to Pires ...

As the Space Station commander, she is focusing on cultivating "Outredgeous" romaine lettuce in microgravity. This experiment aims to study how different levels of water influence plant growth—an ...

Students engaged eagerly, asking questions and soaking up knowledge about life aboard the ISS, where space food and hydration practices are anything but ordinary. For these young learners, seeing an ...