NASA astronaut and Expedition 65 Flight Engineer Shane Kimbrough inserts a device called a science carrier into the Advanced Plant Habitat (APH), which contains 48 Hatch chile pepper seeds for the ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station harvested chile peppers for the second time. The plant-growing experiment concluded recently and set two new records in the process. The crop ...

Peppers (Capsicum annuum) are easily one of the most popular veggies to grow at home — and while they can do well both indoors and outdoors (USDA Zones: 4-11), growing them indoors is often better.

Learn the planting and care techniques to get hundreds of chili peppers from a single plant. Tips on pruning, positioning, ...

NASA is looking to spice up meals for astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The agency is sending Española chile peppers into space. This would be the first fruiting plant the U.S.

Astronauts from NASA's Expedition 66 aboard the International Space Station spiced up their diets on Oct. 29. Together with astronauts from the European Space Agency, Expedition 66's commander Thomas ...

One afternoon in 2021, a postdoctoral researcher and undergraduate at the University of Colorado at Boulder walked into the campus museum not knowing they were about to change the history of the chile ...

A NASA plant experiment, which consisted of growing and harvesting chile peppers in space, broke a record for feeding the most astronauts from a crop grown in space. The experiment also made history ...