US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 Moon mission which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the age of 97, NASA announced Friday.

It took the capsule 17 hours to make the trip home, experiencing re-entry temperatures of around 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit as ...

Four astronauts are back on Earth after a five-month stay at the International Space Station. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted ...

After more than four months aboard the International Space Station, four astronauts safely returned to Earth Saturday morning with a splashdown off the coast of San Diego, wrapping up NASA and ...

The first crew to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

Jim Lovell, the astronaut who commanded the Apollo 13 mission, has left an indelible mark on human spaceflight history. Lovell's leadership and ingenuity played ...

The four members of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission climbed aboard the Crew Dragon Endurance and departed the International Space Station on Friday evening for an overnight trip and safe splashdown back on ...

The return concludes a five-month stay at the ISS for Crew-10 members—National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA) astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration ...

Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.

Tom Hanks, who starred as astronaut Jim Lovell in Apollo 13, honored the space pioneer in an Instagram post Friday hours ...

Lovell commanded the Apollo 13 mission that almost ended in disaster after an explosion that threatened the crew's oxygen and ...