The coroner has released the cause of death for James Lovell, the famed commander of the Apollo 13 moon mission, who died in ...

James McDivitt, a former NASA astronaut who commanded the Gemini IV and Apollo 9 missions, died in his sleep last week in Tucson, Arizona, NASA said in a statement Monday. He was 93. McDivitt was ...

When Comet 3I/ATLAS roared into the solar system this summer, it launched a scientific scramble to study what astronomers ...

The astronaut’s death was announced by NASA. He was a “veteran of the Gemini VII, Gemini XII, and Apollo 8 missions before becoming the Mission Commander for the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 mission to ...

Image specialist Andy Saunders on mining NASA's archives for the ultimate record of America's early space programs ...

Aug. 8 (UPI) --Astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the Apollo 13 mission to the moon, died Thursday in Illinois, his family announced. He was 97. Lovell also flew on three other missions: Gemini 7, ...

James Arthur Lovell Jr., the test pilot turned astronaut who helped prevent the Apollo 13 mission from ending in disaster, died on Thursday at the age of 97. NASA confirmed Lovell’s death on Friday, ...

Before computers, NASA relied on “human computers” — mathematicians who solved complex equations for flight paths and ...

This quiz will take you on a journey through NASA's greatest hits — and a few lesser-known moments too. From the Mercury and ...