Homegrown chickpeas could be on the menu for future astronauts. With help from compost and symbiotic fungi, chickpea plants grow and produce seeds in simulated lunar dirt, researchers report March 5 ...

A pot of gray, lifeless regolith does not look like the start of dinner. Yet in a new experiment, researchers managed to grow ...

Scientists are closer to being able to grow crops on the moon after successfully cultivating chickpeas in simulated lunar ...

In the movie *The Martian*, protagonist Mark Watney (Matt Damon) grows potatoes in a small lab to survive after being ...

Scientists have grown chickpeas in simulated moon soil, offering a promising step toward farming on the lunar surface. Researchers mixed moon-like regolith with worm-produced compost and helpful fungi ...

A ‘Scientific Reports’ study by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M grew chickpeas to full ...

Scientists have grown chickpeas in simulated moon dirt—raising the possibility that future astronauts could one day harvest ...

Scientists have managed to grow chickpeas - the key ingredient in hummus - in a Moon-like soil in a lab, bringing the dream ...

Scientists have successfully cultivated chickpeas in simulated lunar soil, marking a significant step towards sustainable food production for future moon missions. This experiment, conducted at Texas ...

Scientists exploring extraterrestrial farming have successfully cultivated chickpeas in soil largely made from simulated lunar regolith, marking progress toward allowing astronauts on long-duration ...

Chickpea plants are putting their roots down in Central New York, and successful harvests would pack not only a nutritional, but also an economic punch in the Ithaca area and beyond. A partnership ...

Scientists grew chickpeas in simulated moon soil, raising the possibility that astronauts could one day grow crops on future ...