ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst recently returned to the International Space Station and is well known for shooting awesome ...

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst of Germany tweeted a photograph of the Great Salt Lake in Utah from the International Space Station on July 23, 2014. European Space Agency astronaut ...

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 ...

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 ...

A medicine ball-sized device, which weighs about 11 pounds, will soon serve as a robotic assistant for astronauts onboard the International Space Station. On his second six-month mission to the ISS, ...

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 ...

CIMON – the astronaut assistant developed and built in Germany – has survived its cosmic baptism of fire. He worked together with the German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst for around 90 minutes in the ...

Current International Space Station Cmdr. Alexander Gerst expected to be welcoming two additional crewmembers to the orbiting laboratory Thursday (Oct. 11) — but instead, he found himself ...

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 ...

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst has been assigned a new mission to the International Space Station, where he will fulfil the role of commander during the second part of his six-month mission in 2018.

South Africa as seen from the International Space Station by astronaut Alexander Gerst on Sep. 29, 2014. Shanghai at night as seen from the International Space Station by astronaut Alexander Gerst on ...