Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are adding a new item to their menu of space-grown food: Chili peppers. An experiment has recently begun to grow the spicy peppers in space for the ...

Outer space is getting spicier, thanks to a new NASA initiative to add a little more flavor to astronauts' diets. NASA announced last week that astronauts aboard the International Space Station are ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are conducting a NASA first: growing chile peppers. The experiment, Plant Habitat-04 (PH-04), involves growing Hatch chile pepper seeds, which arrived ...

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The National Garden Bureau named 2026 the Year of the Hot Pepper. This guide highlights varieties to try, from super-hot ones ...

NASA is hard at work experimenting with how various organisms behave in space. After sending squids, worms, and fungi to the ISS, now the space agency is attempting to cultivate chili peppers there.

Each year, it seems as though our local garden centers are offering more varieties of chili peppers to choose from. How do you know what to buy? How can you use them or preserve them? Hot peppers, or ...