On 6 June 2018 at 13:12 CEST, the German ESA astronaut set off with NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev on his second long-duration space mission The arrival of the ...

An astronaut in space captured haunting photographs of Friday's total lunar eclipse, also called a blood moon because of its eerie orange-red color. German astronaut Alexander Gerst, a geophysicist ...

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The German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst returned to Earth safely after 197 days in space. The Soyuz capsule landed on schedule in the Kazakh steppe at 6:02 Central European Time (CET). On 3 October ...

"Harsh land. Windswept valleys in northern #Africa"—Alexander Gerst via Twitter on July 6, 2014 "Harsh land. Windswept valleys in northern #Africa"—Alexander Gerst via Twitter on July 6, 2014 ...

After a six-month stint on the International Space Station (ISS) that ended this past November, it's high time for another high point: Alexander Gerst has been honored with the Federal Cross of Merit.

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst went on his first spacewalk Tuesday with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman. Working in the moonlight, the duo spent a total of six hours and 13 minutes ...

After Chris Hadfield and Karen L Nyberg, Alexander Gerst, on Twitter @Astro_Alex, is the latest astronaut to capture global attention with his stunning photographs of Earth from space. Can the German ...

After his second mission to the International Space Station, Alexander Gerst has returned home. He sent some thoughts about the state of the world before he left the station above the planet. European ...

Alexander Gerst is headed back to space - and will become the first German to take command of the International Space Station. The news was made public during Chancellor Merkel's visit to the German ...