Nation: NASA releases stunning images from James Webb Space Telescope in final stage of testing Although the research shows plants can grow in lunar soil, “they don’t like it," said Anna-Lisa ...

The question, though, is whether the dry, sharp, glassy, soil, bathed for epochs by cosmic radiation and solar wind, can support plant growth anything like the rich, loamy soil of Earth.

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 ...

In a NASA-funded study, scientists at the University of Florida grew plants in soil collected from the moon, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Communications Biology.

The experiment suggests that regolith might be useful for growing food on the Moon. It also shows how plants shape aliens soil, allowing future missions to the Moon, Mars or elsewhere to search ...