The dancing lights of an aurora can be awe-inspiring down here on Earth, but when seen from the International Space Station they take on a magical quality. Astronaut Alex Gerst describes it as ...

Always-eager astronauts Alexander Gerst and Reid Wiseman completed their first-ever spacewalks today, scrambling around the outside of the International Space Station. They completed their official ...

Astronauts Reid Wiseman and Alex Gerst continue enacting the real-life space buddy-movie we never knew we always wanted. From sticking a video camera inside a water bubble in microgravity to carefully ...

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst of Germany tweeted a photograph of the Great Salt Lake in Utah from the International Space Station on July 23, 2014. European Space Agency astronaut ...

Every day, the Gaza crisis seems to reach new heights, with death tolls from the violence edging ever-nearer to 1,000. It's so intense, it turns out, that the Gaza conflict can even be seen from space ...

The Doves are a series of microsatellites designed to provide rapid whole-Earth satellite images, and to look good while doing it. Astronauts Alex Gerst and Reid Wiseman ejected two Dove satellites ...

Astronaut Alex Gerst was a delight to have on the International Space Station, teaming up with NASA’s Reid Wiseman to bring us snippets of life in orbit from the mundane to silly to the awe-inspiring.