By Dean Murray An astronaut has captured a Close Encounters-style light show over Earth. NASA spaceman Don Pettit shot the eerie sight of multi-colored flashes from the International Space ...

An astronaut has captured a Close Encounters-style light show over Earth. NASA spaceman Don Pettit shot the eerie sight of multi-coloured flashes from the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday ...

Space station astronaut Don Pettit has shared a clip showing streaks of light created by SpaceX's Starlink satellites.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is known for snapping stunning space imagery from the International Space Station (ISS), and his ...

A breathtaking view of Aurora - Dance of lights - has been captured over Antarctica and Australia and the visuals are totally ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured breathtaking ... These are bright, colorful flashes of light faster than lightning and are sometimes referred to as "sprites." Pettit was able to view the ...

The scientist invented the first object patented in space — called the Capillary Beverage, Space Cup or Zero-G cup, which makes it easier to drink beverages in the absence of gravity, and he is also a ...

The average astronaut has also changed quite a bit, too. At first, they were all young and super-fit ex-military men, but nowadays they are more likely to be middle-aged science-y types and women.

India has chosen Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla as the primary astronaut and Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair as his back-up on this nearly fortnight-long mission. India is paying all the ...