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 ...

WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - If the idea of lunar hummus seems far-fetched, think again. Scientists working to cultivate ...

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 ...

We could grow chickpeas on the Moon, scientists say - Nasa and other space agencies hope that humans will be living on the Moon in the coming years – and they’ll need something to eat ...

Tests involving growing chickpea plants in lunar regolith treated with vermicompost and fungi yielded harvestable crops — but ...

SCIENTISTS have grown chickpeas in moon dirt in a bid to prove humans could farm in space. The airless, dry and rocky conditions are one of the greatest barriers to setting up cosmic colonies.

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

As the US plans a long-duration mission to the Moon under the Artemis Programme, one of the biggest challenges that the ...

This is big leap forward to how astronauts can be provided food during their sojourn on the Moon.

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 ...