Growing plants in space is no longer a distant dream. Scientists and astronauts have been experimenting with growing plants ...

"Growing the zinnia plants will help advance our knowledge of how plants flower in the Veggie growth system, and will enable fruiting plants like tomatoes to be grown and eaten in space using ...

Derek Fell, a Brit transplanted to the Northeast U.S. and ultimately to Florida's Sanibel Island, wrote " Vertical Gardening: Grow Up, Not Out, for More Vegetables and Flowers in Much Less Space." ...

These are not the first plants NASA has grown on the space station, or even the first flowers to bloom in space — but they are NASA's first flower that has grown entirely, from seed to maturity ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have successfully grown a flower to full bloom for the first time outside our Earth. Scott Kelly of the US space agency NASA tweeted this weekend ...

According to NASA, the space flower is an orange zinnia, selected because it's a harder plant to grow than lettuce -- which has already been successfully grown and eaten in space. NASA's astronauts ...

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is currently coming up on the end of his year-long stay on the International Space Station. That means it's been almost 300 days since he's experienced all the ...