We’ve always known that future space explorers would have to get creative when it comes to food in space. Now, however, the ...

During a future Thanksgiving in low-Earth orbit, astronauts may bio-farm healthy holiday salads of microgreens, vegetables, mushrooms, sprouts — and ground-up insect larvae — inside their space ...

Outer space has incredible views but the food could use some work.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — If television could transmit smells, the lab Hope Hersh works in would make you think you’re in a bakery. “As a lab, we are obsessed with starch,” she said. The food lab sits ...

Space travel is heating up, both by NASA and private enterprises, with bold adventurers and scientists looking to eventually send humans to Mars. One of the challenges of such a multiyear mission in ...

Astronauts will attempt to grow mushrooms in space for the first time during SpaceX's upcoming Fram2 mission. Launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as early as Monday (March 31), the Fram2 mission ...

Most people’s idea of space food is freeze-dried ice cream, and that’s not too far off: As much as space travel has changed over the decades, astronauts still eat freeze-dried and commercially ...