Scott Parazynski has been on five missions, and his favourite part is staring at the stars, moon and his home, planet Earth.

On a trip to Hong Kong, the American told the city’s students about his career in hopes of inspiring them to reach for the ...

NASA astronaut and keen astrophotographer Don Pettit returned to Earth on his 70th birthday on Sunday, April 21, completing a ...

John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA space shuttle ...

In a fascinating intersection of space exploration and Earth science, NASA’s Apollo astronauts once trained on the alien-like lava fields of Idaho’s Craters of the Moon, preparing to explore the ...

But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling toward Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up ...

Spacesuit parts are being tested in a cryogenic ice chamber to see how well they would fare in the lunar south pole.

Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the ...

A veteran NASA astronaut from Oregon who flew to orbit more than seven months ago with two Russians is preparing to return to ...

Following a seven-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian ...

Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit is set to return from his fourth trip to space on Saturday night. Here are some of his ...

NASA's oldest active astronaut has redefined traveling "home" for your birthday, landing from the International Space Station ...