Jessica Meir and Anil Menon have been growing Red Russian kale and Wasabi mustard greens on board the International Space Station.
Space Agriculture
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 inSpace Life Science
SpaceBio Knowledge Hub: A LiteratOmics Platform for Microgravity and Space Biology Research
Editor’s note: The following was posted on LinkedIn by Jose Cleydson Ferreira Silva, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Florida “As research in space biology continues to grow, scientific knowledge […]
Posted inLife Support Systems
Integrating Resource Utilization And Bioregenerative Life Support Systems For Sustainable Space Exploration
[Frontiers] The long-term presence of humans in space depends on reducing reliance on Earth’s resupply of materials and resources. In situ resource utilization (ISRU) represents a sustainable approach to support […]
Posted inAstronauts and Explorers, Astropharmacy / Biotechnology, Microgravity, People Of Astrobiology, Plant Biology, Sample Return, Space Agriculture, Space Life Science, Space Stations, Status Report
Offworld Biotech: Handling Microbial And Botanical Samples
NASA astronaut and Expedition 74 flight engineer Jessica Meir activates tubes filled with microbial and botanical samples associated with a variety of student-designed experiments inside the International Space Station’s Harmony […]
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Desert Worlds, Gaia - Planetary Perspectives, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Space Agriculture, Status Report, Terraforming & Geoengineering, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Maximum Lifetime Of The Vegetative Biosphere
We use a three-dimensional model to calculate steady-state climates at various intervals in Earth’s future, across a parameter space of increasing insolation and decreasing CO2 mixing ratio.
Posted inGenomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Origin & Evolution of Life, Plant Biology, Press Release, Space Agriculture, Space Life Science
Stolen Chloroplasts Maintained By Host-made Proteins Offer Clues To Plant Cell Origins
Every plant cell is the product of a biological merger billions of years ago. Chloroplasts are key structures in plants and algae that capture sunlight, but originally they were free-living […]
Posted inMicrogravity, Space Agriculture, Space Life Science, Space Physiology & Medicine, Space Stations, Status Report
ASGSR Newsletter – March 2026
The Marketing and Social Media Committee is pleased to share with you the March 2026 issue of the ASGSR Newsletter. This issue contains a message from our leadership along with:
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Posted inBiochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Nanotechnology & SynBio, Origin & Evolution of Life, Plant Biology, Press Release, Space Agriculture
300 Million Years Of Hidden Genetic Instructions Shaping Plant Evolution Revealed
A deep genetic mystery has baffled plant scientists for decades. Although leaves, stems, and flowers develop in strikingly similar ways across many plant species, scientists have struggled to identify the […]