In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a ...

The Science Museum reopens its star attraction. Any kid who ever went to London's Science Museum — going generations back — ...

Essentially, a nuclear rocket engine is a reactor that has hydrogen running through it as a propellant, which is heated to an astonishing 3,000 K (2,727 °C, 4,940 °F), giving it almost twice the ...

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, ...

James Lovell, a member of humanity's first trip to the moon and commander of NASA's ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97. Lovell's death on Thursday was announced by the space agency ...

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, ...

Jim Lovell, who served as commander of the infamous Apollo 13 venture, has died at 97 years old, NASA confirmed Friday, Aug. 8 The four-time spaceflight veteran known for his work on Gemini and Apollo ...

Jim Lovell, who was among the first astronauts to leave Earth’s gravitational pull, has died, NASA announced. He was portrayed by Tom Hanks in the movie "Apollo 13," which dramatized the nearly ...

The US space program won’t go anywhere without centralized leadership and a coordinating vision. There was a time when giants walked the Earth—and America produced such giants. No, I’m not talking ...

Although it’s been 52 years since the Apollo 11 mission first took man to the moon and 30 years since Tom Hanks famously told Houston that he had a problem in the film “Apollo 13,” Vacaville residents ...

The Saturn V rocket was part of the technology that made the Apollo mission successful and played a pivotal role in launching Apollo 11 to the Moon in 1969, marking a turning point in human history.