It’s a long journey to get to outer space, but Boulder scientist Jim Sears is now one step closer to realizing his dream of seeing his space-ready oven cooking away on the International Space Station.

During a future Thanksgiving in low-Earth orbit, astronauts may bio-farm healthy holiday salads of microgreens, vegetables, mushrooms, sprouts — and ground-up insect larvae — inside their space ...

Space travel is heating up, both by NASA and private enterprises, with bold adventurers and scientists looking to eventually send humans to Mars. One of the challenges of such a multiyear mission in ...

Delicious food and space are not a combination we often hear. But that doesn't mean nutrition is not on the minds of space scientists. They realize that the more well-fed their astronauts are, the ...

TOKYO >> A new certification aims to promote the development of sophisticated space food needed for long-term stays in space. Amid big dreams of space travel, an academic society has created an ...

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 ...