Veteran astronaut Don Pettit most recently spent five months in space and captured remarkable images. He’s taken nearly a million images and says they are a vivid display of beauty. Pettit has taken ...

Space tourists are participants in a crafted, symbolic journey that reflects how commercial spaceflight is redefining what it ...

A NASA astronaut onboard the International Space Station has shared 'breathtaking' images of 'the world and beyond'.

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers recently spoke to PEOPLE while stationed aboard the International Space ...

In 1988, NASA started making MAGs — Maximum Absorbency Garments — for all its astronauts, said Kiona N. Smith, author of ...

Since then, Ayers has spent 50 days in space, astronauting. This included a spacewalk last week, her first, alongside veteran astronaut Anne McClain. As they returned to the airlock, the Earth ...

An astronaut has captured jaw-dropping lightning from space. NASA's Nichole Ayers has wowed space fans with her snaps of the atmospheric activity on Friday, May 2. Ayers first spotted storms on ...

Apart from being the first American in space, Shepard also became the fifth human to walk on the Moon. Once one of the first seven astronauts chosen by NASA for project Mercury, Shepard went on to ...

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But there’s much more to a spacewalk than the amazing view of astronauts floating in space. These missions take months of training, come with serious risks, and need to be carried out with ...

(AP) — An astronaut who missed out on the first all ... NASA’s Anne McClain emerged from the International Space Station alongside Nichole Ayers. Both military officers and pilots, they ...