Astronauts on the International Space Station planted chili peppers in orbit. The project, NASA’s Plant Habitat-04, aims to gauge the possibilities of growing plants outside of the Earth’s soil. The ...

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 ...

When it comes to picking chili peppers, farmer James Weaver can do it without gloves but some of his customers need protection from the capsaicin, the chemical that makes the peppers hot and can give ...

A pepper plant growing in a pot - Woodysphotos/Getty Images Most people consider peppers (Capsicum annuum) as an easy plant to grow, as long as the soil and sunlight are ideal. This is helpful because ...

Chile peppers are a traditional part of Indian cuisine — and a key crop for women farmers. They say it's too demanding for ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Despite the popularity of spicy cuisine among Homo sapiens, the hotness in chili peppers has always been something of an evolutionary mystery. A plant creates fruit in order to ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link A NASA plant experiment, which consisted of growing and harvesting chile peppers in space, broke a record for feeding the most astronauts from a ...