The plants in lunar soil were compared to a control group of plants grown in volcanic ash and a lunar soil simulant known as JSC-1A. The lunar samples on the right do not appear as developed as the ...

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Scientists have, for the first time, grown plants in soil from the Moon. They used soil collected during the Apollo 11, 12 and 17 missions. In their experiment, the researchers wanted to know if ...

NASA loaned biologists 12 grams of lunar soil, and it was enough to kindle the growth of multiple flowering plants. Reading time 4 minutes For the first time ever, scientists have grown plants in ...

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

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Arabidopsis plants 6 days after the seeds were planted. The four wells on the left contain plants growing in JSC-1A lunar soil simulant. The three wells on the right contain plants growing in lunar ...

For the first time in history, researchers have used soil from the moon to successfully grow plants, according to a study published Thursday in Communications Biology. NASA, which funded the research, ...

Growing greens just went lunar. For the first time, scientists have successfully grown plants using lunar soil—known as lunar regolith—collected from past moon expeditions. Scientists at the ...