Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions. Researchers from Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have ...

Researchers from Western University’s Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have proposed using organic matter from asteroids to produce food for astronauts on long-duration space missions.

Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration ... identified a way to produce edible biomass, aka food, using microbes and the organic compounds ...

Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions. Researchers from Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have ...

Kids around the country, mostly at museums and theme parks, get a taste of what it would be like to live in space with Astronaut Ice Cream. Anyone expecting the cold and soft textures of a ...

Therefore, mining asteroids could theoretically revolutionize long-duration space travel by allowing astronauts to rely on locally sourced food instead of needing to launch with large quantities ...

Scientists are studying whether future astronauts on deep-space journeys could transform compounds in asteroids into food. By Sarah Scoles Sarah Scoles previously reported on simulating ...