When you orbit the Earth at 17,000 miles an hour, time accelerates and phenomena shrink. The sun rises every 90 minutes. Pacific Ocean clouds branch and narrow in stratospheric fractals. Over the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. WASHINGTON — My spacecraft flew through the shadow of the moon and into orbital sunrise, and ...

Three months ago Bill Anders passed at the age of 91 years. In December 1968 it was Anders together with Frank Borman and Jim Lovell who were the first to leave the Earth’s orbit and travel to the ...

The profound sense of connectedness and awe experienced by astronauts upon seeing Earth from space is the subject of a new study. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

"It was emotionally moving beyond what I thought it would be," civilian astronaut Chris Sembroski tells PEOPLE in this week's issue As the world's first civilian astronaut crew to orbit Earth, the ...

This incredible film from The Planetary Collective does a great job of showing what astronauts call "The Overview Effect" — the feeling you get when you see the "blue marble" of the Earth floating in ...