Plants are vital to human space exploration, providing oxygen, food, and psychological benefits to astronauts while contributing to water regeneration by recycling organic waste.
Plant Biology
Posted inAnalog Studies, Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine, Life Support Systems, Microgravity, Plant Biology, Press Release, Space Agriculture, Space Life Science
Offworld Agriculture: Developing The Perfect Crop For Space Bases
The future of sustained space habitation depends on our ability to grow fresh food away from Earth. The revolutionary new collaborative Moon-Rice project is using cutting-edge experimental biology to create […]
Posted inBiogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Gaia - Planetary Perspectives, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Origin & Evolution of Life, Plant Biology, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Detecting Alien Living Worlds And Photosynthetic Life Using Imaging Polarimetry With The HWO Coronagraph
Our Earth, being the only living planet that we know, provides us with clues that photosynthetic life-forms may be dominant on other exoplanets for billions of years.
Posted inConferences and Meetings, Microgravity, Plant Biology, Space Life Science, Space Physiology & Medicine, Status Report
ASGSR 2025 Call For Abstract Reviewers
Interested in volunteering to review ASGSR 2025 abstracts? Please fill out the form to volunteer. This must be filled out by the end of the day on Wednesday, July 23rd […]
Posted inAstronauts and Explorers, Life Support Systems, Microgravity, Missions & Hardware, Plant Biology, Space Agriculture, Space Life Science, Status Report
Offworld Space Botany Hardware
NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers is pictured inside the cupola with space botany hardware that supports the LEO Integrated Flori-culture Experiment (LIFE) 01 (Rhodium Plant LIFE) investigation.
Posted inAstronauts and Explorers, Life Support Systems, Microbiology & Virology, Microgravity, Plant Biology, Space Agriculture, Space Life Science, Space Stations, Status Report
Offworld Biotech: Growing Microalgae In Microgravity
NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers shows off research hardware to study how microalgae grow in spaceflight conditions such as microgravity and radiation.
Posted inLife Support Systems, Moon, Plant Biology, Space Agriculture, Space Life Science, Status Report
Raman Spectroscopy As A Tool For Assessing Plant Growth In Space And On Lunar Regolith Simulants
Colonization of the Moon and other planets is an aspiration of NASA and may yield important benefits for our civilization.
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Conferences and Meetings, Microbiology & Virology, Microgravity, Plant Biology, Press Release, Space Agriculture, Space Life Science, Space Physiology & Medicine, Space Stations
American Society for Gravitational and Space Research ASGSR 2025 Call for Abstracts
Abstract submissions for the 2025 ASGSR annual conference are now being accepted. Each year the ASGSR annual conference brings together the biological and physical space sciences community to share research, […]
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology, Fossils & Paleontology, Microbiology & Virology, Nomenclature, Systematics, Natural History, Origin & Evolution of Life, Plant Biology, Press Release, ROVs/Submersibles/Diving, Sample Return, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Study Resolves The Diatom Tree Of Life
Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth’s oxygen and are the foundation of aquatic food webs. The prevalence and diversity […]
Posted inGenomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Microgravity, Plant Biology, Space Agriculture, Space Life Science, Space Stations, Status Report
Offworld Life Science: Visualized Microtubules In Cell Cultures
Taken on 28 May 2025, this image of the preparative zone of cultured tobacco cells with visualized microtubules (yellow: microtubules [preparative zone], magenta: nuclei).