A NASA astronaut had a life-changing revelation after spending 178 days on the International Space Station. Ron Garan, who launched on April 4, 2011 and returned home on September 16, 2011, completed ...

As the Artemis II astronauts hurtled around the moon during their historic flyby, basking in unprecedented views of the illuminated lunar far side, pilot Victor Glover described the visuals as “sci-fi ...

Astronauts know about "the overview effect." Sometimes called the "orbital perspective," it's what happens to a person after being "up there." William Shatner struggled to communicate in 2021 the ...

When astronauts describe seeing Earth from space, they often report a psychological and spiritual shift known as the Overview Effect.1 Research on awe and self-transcendent emotions suggests that awe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronaut Christina Koch gazes on her receding home planet out the window of Orion as the spacecraft continues its journey toward ...

NASA marked the beginning of Earth Month in an unusual way: flinging humans further away from Earth than they have ever before been. The Artemis II mission, just one stage of a longer American journey ...

“The moon we are looking at is not the moon you see from Earth whatsoever.” That’s how Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch described our natural satellite as the mission’s spacecraft drew closer to ...

The headlines this week are bursting with news of a fragile cease-fire in the Iran war. Pundits and politicians claim it’s either an historic military victory or a shameful surrender, either a tide ...