The first stage of the rocket that Firefly was prepping to make Alpha's seventh-ever flight exploded on Monday (Sept. 29) during a preflight trial.

As the lights dimmed at Showbiz Cinemas here on a recent evening, Fred Haise, the last surviving member of the Apollo 13 crew, settled into a seat for a special ...

Houston, we have a problem.” — and director Ron Howard had a few of them himself shooting his riveting, reality-based 1995 classic, Apollo 13 … beginning with that famous misquote. In the film, Tom ...

What really happened on Apollo 13? In April 1970, three astronauts were headed to the Moon when a deadly oxygen tank explosion turned their mission into a fight for survival. With systems failing and ...

Ron Howard and his crew — including Tom Hanks, Brian Grazer, Ed Harris, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Clint Howard — reveal how they found the right stuff to capture NASA's finest ...

Director Ron Howard's 1995 space rescue thriller lives on with a special anniversary edition for one week only starting Sept. 19.

Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise (played by Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton, respectively) were forced to chart a return home following an explosion as the crew on the ground ...

Tom Hanks is sharing a touching sendoff for Jim Lovell, the Apollo 13 commander Hanks portrayed in the Oscar-winning film of the same name 30 years ago. Hours after news of Lovell's death at 97 on Aug ...

A gas truck explosion that generated a “shock wave” in Mexico City on Wednesday killed at least six people and left 90 injured, according to the city’s government. Those who were injured were taken to ...

Local police and firefighters were dispatched to Palm Springs High School in response to an explosion reported Thursday morning, but their investigation found the sound came from a vehicle backfiring.

For the first time, Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison is the wealthiest person in the world. Ellison, who co-founded the company nearly 50 years ago, passed Tesla Inc.