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This breakthrough may help astronauts prepare food without having to bring their meals on long term missions.

Sometime in the 2040s, humans may well reach a new frontier—Mars. To get there, we'll need sustainable sources of food, medicines and materials. But science can do both. And space research has a long ...

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Long before humans reached orbit, insects had already shown they could handle the hurdles of spaceflight. Light, highly adaptable and nutritionally rich, these resilient animals present an attractive ...

Takeshi Nikawa is a professor in the Department of Nutritional Physiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan, and chief director of the Institute ...

Food tends to taste bland in space, astronauts have reported, making it tough for them to eat enough to stay healthy. Focusing on foods' smell might help overcome this problem, a new study says. Aroma ...

Scientists are studying whether future astronauts on deep-space journeys could transform compounds in asteroids into food. By Sarah Scoles Sarah Scoles previously reported on simulating agriculture on ...

NASA plant physiologist Ray Wheeler, Ph.D., and fictional astronaut Mark Watney from the movie “The Martian” have something in common they are both botanists. But that’s where the similarities end.