Humans haven’t been back to the lunar surface since the Apollo moon program ended over five decade ago. The reasons why go beyond science, according to experts.

Buzz Aldrin, the second man and only one of 12 to ever walk on the moon, turns 96 today. He’s just one of four living moonwalkers and the oldest remaining astronaut still making trips around the sun.

The Cosmosphere in Kansas will host a watch party for the upcoming Artemis II launch. The event will feature a live NASA broadcast, expert presentations, and family-friendly activities. Artemis II ...

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Houston, we have a list of great museums where you can learn about outer space, from science to history. Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra ...

The Cosmosphere is hosting a "13 Days of Christmas" movie series from December 12 to 24. The series will feature a different classic or modern holiday film each night in the Justice Planetarium. The ...

More than six decades ago, the United States launched its first satellite into Earth orbit, turning the dream of spaceflight into reality. Space tourism may be inching closer, but until off-planet ...

Thirty years after depicting space like no film before (or since), Ron Howard and his crew — including Tom Hanks, Brian Grazer, Ed Harris, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan and Clint Howard — ...

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the ...

Five years before Tom Hanks got stuck on an island in Cast Away (2000), he was stuck in space in Ron Howard's film Apollo 13, which was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won two of them. It was ...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (KSNW) – The Cosmosphere is honoring the memory of the doomed Apollo 13 Mission Commander Jim Lovell. Official photo of Commander Jim Lovell (Courtesy NASA) Lovell served as commander ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. It is proper that the moon was full Saturday, the day the headlines recorded the ...