NASA’s oldest serving astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday following a 7-month mission on board the International Space Station (ISS). Don Pettit marked his 70th birthday with a special homecoming, ...

NASA's oldest active-duty astronaut has returned to Earth after spending more than seven months in space, telling reporters he still feels "like a little kid inside" despite turning 70 during his ...

Commercial aircraft are big, heavy, and noisy as they fly through the air, but a lot of that noise when they come in for landing is generated by the airframe rather than the engines. NASA decided to ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is drawn to the science of opportunity. These projects aren't funded by NASA or cooked up in a lab. In fact, some are quite simple. Pettit packed a wire frame for his latest ...

NASA recently brought its first sample back from an asteroid, with the OSIRIS-REx mission dropping off a sample from asteroid Bennu in the Utah desert. The goal of the mission was to collect at least ...

Don Pettit says microgravity makes him "feel 30 years old again." NASA's oldest active-duty astronaut has returned to Earth after spending more than seven months in space, telling reporters he still ...