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

With SpaceX and other agencies eyeing missions to Mars in the future, sustaining astronauts on these long-distance voyages ...

The ESA will be testing a protein powder called Solein, which contains a compound found in urine, on a mission aboard the ISS ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a deal with Finnish start-up Solar Foods to launch a trial to see if astronauts ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- To keep people safe during Wednesday's historic launch, Space Center Houston created a guide to host the ultimate virtual watch party. For the first time in nearly a decade, ...

Food scientist Michele Perchonok describes the challenges of and innovations in developing space food for astronauts. She is the Advanced Food System Lead at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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 ...

Growing food in space seems like something out of science fiction, but researchers have grown a vegetable native to the ...

Astronaut on moon next to American flag and lunar rover - Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock On March 23, 1965, NASA launched astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young ...

There was a 15 or so year blip in history when space–and massive government programs to explore space–was very cool. All a food company had to do was take, say, a powdered orange drink, slap a phrase ...

Feb. 27, 2012 — -- The shrimp cocktail on the space shuttle must really have been something. On a two-week flight in 2006, astronaut Mark Polansky asked to have it on his menu every day. For ...