"Apollo 13" heads to theaters for film's 30th anniversary, tells the Jim Lovell-led story of a near-disastrous NASA mission.

Jim Lovell, the commander of the famed Apollo 13 mission, has died, according to NASA. He was 97."We are saddened by the passing of Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 and a four-time spaceflight ...

Nicknamed "Smilin’ Jim” by his fellow astronauts, Jim Lovell was known for his wit and quick grin, said acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy.

The astronaut was portrayed by Tom Hanks in Ron Howard's 1995 movie about the expedition, in which Hanks famously said, ...

Lovell's "life and work inspired millions of people across the decades," said NASA Administrator Sean Duffy in a statement.

New evidence of giant gas planet around ‘Earth’s closest solar twin’ - The confirmation of the gas giant planet would mark a milestone as the closest planet to Earth that orbits in a habitable zone of ...

Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just six remain.

Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that was forced to abandon a lunar landing ...

It's low-hanging fruit to use the line "Houston, we have a problem" when something goes wrong in the Texas metropolis. But earlier this year, when pop icon Beyonce got stuck in midair in the middle of ...

The only person to fly to the Moon twice but never trod its surface had some amazing stories to tell. Originally published ...