Pettit is now in the midst of his third stint on the International Space Station, and the decade he had to prepare for his ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is currently on his third stay on the International Space Station where he works with other astronauts to conduct experiments and maintain the celestial outpost. But in his ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared two striking images of the Los Angeles wildfires, taken from the International Space Station (ISS). These devastating fires erupted in the hills of Los Angeles County ...

Don Pettit is on a roll ... and also shows the glow of a sunrise — or sunset — over Earth. Pettit, who at 69 is NASA’s oldest serving astronaut, arrived at the orbital outpost in September ...

The stunning phenomenon was captured recently by NASA astronaut Don Pettit as the space station passed over the aurora at an altitude of about 250 miles. An aurora is a natural light display most ...

One of the many advantages of being in space is having a front-row seat to the most anticipated cosmic events.

A shimmering green aurora dances over Earth in this view shared by NASA astronaut Don Pettit. Earth has been treated to a bumper crop of auroras lately. The sun reached “solar maximum” late ...