The Perspective From Space NASA marked the beginning of Earth Month in an unusual way: flinging humans further away from ...

When astronauts look back at Earth from space, they often describe an experience so profound that it permanently alters how they perceive life. Known as the "overview effect," this shift in ...

A NASA astronaut had a life-changing revelation after spending 178 days on the International Space Station. Ron Garan, who launched on April 4, 2011 and returned home on September 16, 2011, completed ...

The moon we are looking at is not the moon you see from Earth whatsoever.” What Koch and her crew mates experienced—what NASA’s mission control in Houston called “moon joy”—is infectious, it seems.

As the Artemis II astronauts hurtled around the moon during their historic flyby, basking in unprecedented views of the illuminated lunar far side, pilot Victor Glover described the visuals as “sci-fi ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Many astronauts who have viewed the earth from space recall ...