Jessica Meir and Anil Menon have been growing Red Russian kale and Wasabi mustard greens on board the International Space Station.
Plant Biology
Posted inSpace Life Science
AI-Run Growth Chamber Will Test How Plants Develop in Microgravity Against a Matching Experiment on Earth
[Voyager Technologies] (NYSE: VOYG) executed a mission management contract with Interstellar Lab to host BioPod EDEN, the company’s autonomous plant growth payload, aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Posted inSpace Agriculture
Offworld Space Botany
[NASA] NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Luke Delaney works inside the International Space Station’s Harmony module on a space botany investigation.
Posted inGaia - Planetary Perspectives
How Life On Earth Experiences Climate Change
[Stockholm University] Climate change can look very different at the scale of a forest, field or hillside. A new review shows how changes in vegetation and atmospheric conditions can cause […]
Posted inExtremeophiles and Extreme Environments
How A Desert Alga Helps Us Understand Plants’ Adaptability To Extreme Environmental Conditions
[Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau] A single-celled green alga from the sand dunes of the Negev Desert has, within just a few years, become a key model organism in modern photosynthesis […]
Posted inCryobiology
Antarctica’s Only Two Flowering Plants Reveal Opposing Strategies For Surviving Long-term Warming
[Instituto de Ecologia y Biodiversidad] A team of Chilean and Spanish researchers has published in the scientific journal Physiologia Plantarum the results of one of the longest-running in situ warming […]
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology
Opportunity to Contribute to NASA DARES Community White Paper on Phototrophic Biosignatures
[Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments RCN] Opportunity to contribute to the “White Paper on Phototrophic Biosignatures: Research Priorities for the Search for Life on Other Worlds“, developed as community […]
![Global maps of predicted pigment concentrations (left column) and pigment-to-chlorophyll-a ratios (right column) for May 2010 generated using the Random Forest model. Panels (a–f) show fucoxanthin, peridinin and zeaxanthin.-- [q-bio.OT]](https://i0.wp.com/astrobiology.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/beyond.png?resize=1200%2C717&ssl=1)
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology
Beyond Chlorophyll: Machine Learning Estimates Of Diagnostic Phytoplankton Pigments From Multispectral Ocean Colour Data
[q-bio.OT] Phytoplankton play a central role in marine ecosystems and the global carbon cycle, with different groups contributing differently to ocean biogeochemical processes.
Posted inPlant Biology
Is A Constitutive Red-shift An Advantage For Oxygenic Photosynthesis Under M Dwarf Starlight? Insights From Acaryochloris Marina sp. str. Moss Beach
[FEMS Microbes] In the next decades, space telescope missions will search for life evidence on exoplanets, focusing on robust biosignatures associated with oxygenic photosynthesis, including atmospheric oxygen accumulation and the […]
Posted inSpace Life Science
Assessing The Susceptibility Of Microalgae To Space Conditions Using Stratospheric Balloons
[Scientific Reports via Xmol] Biological exposure experiments under near-space conditions remain limited by the high cost and low accessibility of spaceflight platforms, motivating low-cost analog approaches for initial screening.