You, like most of us, probably have a pile of moon dirt hanging around in your house that you just don’t know what to do with. NASA ran into this problem recently, too. Luckily, they found a solution: It turns out you can grow Earth plants in lunar soil.
In a paper published in the journal Communications Biology, scientists at NASA revealed they were able to grow plants in soil collected from a different celestial body for the first time ever. Using surface samples scooped up from the Moon during the Apollo missions, the scientists were able to plant the seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana and see them sprout.
