The next revolution in beverages might be out of this world — literally.

Researchers at the University of Kent have shown that it is possible to grow tea in lunar soil, a discovery that could transform how future astronauts live and work in lunar and outer space environments.

The team partnered with U.K. tea plantation Dartmoor Tea, Lightcurve Films and Europlanet, a European network of planetary scientists, to conduct the experiment.

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Led by Professors Nigel Mason and Sara Lopez-Gomollon, the researchers planted saplings in soils designed to mimic conditions on the moon and Mars. The plants were monitored for several weeks under controlled temperature, humidity, and lighting meant to simulate space environments.

The lunar and Martian samples were compared against a control gro

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