There will soon come a time when humans will finally fulfill their dreams of reaching an alien planet. Mars is the intended destination, not necessarily because we know the planet is promising, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Outer space has incredible views but the food could use some work. There’s a long and storied history of developing food for space ...

What would it take to make a cobb salad on Mars? How would you grow the lettuce, or raise the chickens? NASA launched a challenge Tuesday that aims to answer questions like these. “Astronauts on ...

Takeshi Nikawa is a professor in the Department of Nutritional Physiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan, and chief director of the Institute ...