[8] In 2021, Asteroid Kiss 8267 was named in his honor, a recognition that coincided with his receipt of the 2021 COSPAR International Cooperation Medal.

[9] His international collaboration on a spaceflight project with NASA and the European Space Agency has led to the discovery of novel sensory mechanisms in plants.

From 1987 to 1990 Kiss conducted post-doctoral work on gravitropism in plants at Ohio State University, where he was first introduced to NASA-related research.

His first funded project, on gravity perception and response mechanisms, was as a NASA research associate at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1990 to 1991.

The following year, Kiss received the Benjamin Harrison Medallion, the highest recognition by Miami University for “extraordinary contributions related to teaching, research, and service”.

His major collaborators on these space projects included Richard E. Edelmann from Miami University and F. Javier Medina from Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC) in Spain.

[20] This spaceflight research contributed to the discovery of a novel red-light sensing mechanism involved in phototropism of flowering plants.