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Next ‘real step’ is to grow plants on the surface of the moon, said scientists

That's one small pot of soil, one giant leap for man's knowledge of space agriculture: scientists have for the first time grown plants in lunar soil brought back by astronauts in the Apollo program. The ground-breaking experiment, detailed in the journal Communications Biology on Thursday, has given researchers hope that…

Scientists for the first time have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts

Scientists have cultivated cress in dirt, or regolith, that had been kept for half a century - since the Apollo missions. It is a first step towards producing food and oxygen on the moon

Thale cress seeds survived but grew more slowly than those planted in volcanic ash, developing stunted roots

Mercury will be in its second retrograde of 2022 from 10 May until 3 June

“Hello, world!”

There's big news on the "event" horizon: For the first time tonight, we'll get a good look at the supermassive black hole in the middle of the Milky Way. But how do we know it's there at all?

In today's Inverse Daily, read about time machines, a SpaceX splashdown, the Webb Telescope's soon-to-come exoplanet imaging, and more.