Tom Hanks has paid tribute to James Lovell, the astronaut he portrayed in the 1995 film Apollo 13, following his death at the ...

US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a ...

A senior Harvard astronomer has reignited speculation about the origins of a vast interstellar object hurtling through the solar system. He has suggested that it might be an engineered probe instead ...

After nearly five months onboard the International Space Station, an international crew of five astronauts began their descent back down to Earth on a SpaceX capsule Friday.

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.

Jim Lovell, the astronaut, who has died aged 97, was commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in April 1970, which turned ...

Tom Hanks is remembering the late Jim Lovell. Following the news that commander of Apollo 13 mission, Lovell died on Thursday ...

As China and Russia race to stake their claim, America is bidding to get ahead through a fusion of federal funding and ...

Astronaut James Lovell Jr., known for serving as commander of the Apollo 13 mission, died Thursday, Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, ...

Godspeed you, on this next voyage’ - Lovell was the commander on the ill-fated 1970 space mission that inspired the ...

James A. Lovell Jr., the American astronaut who commanded the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its lunar voyage in 1970 and shepherded it on a perilous four-day journey back to Earth after an oxygen tank ...

James Lovell, the pioneering U.S. astronaut whose two dramatic missions to the moon included Apollo 13, the nearly disastrous ...