On 13 April 1970, an oxygen tank exploded in the Apollo 13 Command and Service Module Odyssey, badly damaging the spacecraft 200,000 miles from Earth. NASA had no choice but to scrub the planned third ...

For many space planners in the early 1960s, piloted Solar System exploration using large "post-Saturn" rockets and new-design nuclear-powered spaceships seemed a natural follow-on to the Apollo lunar ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Aside from the attention it receives around one of its rare ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Eric Mack is a reporter covering science, sustainability and space. From images taken by NASA spacecrafts, this picture mosaic was ...

Since Gene Cernan stepped back into the Apollo 17 lander in 1972, no human being has set foot on the moon again. On the windless lunar world, the Apollo astronauts' footsteps still remain, waiting for ...

To many, the idea that life could survive on Venus is difficult to imagine. While it’s technically the planet most like Earth in terms of size, mass, composition, and proximity to the Sun, the surface ...

Venus has never been really high on us Earth-people's priority list for exploration or colonization, mostly because as a species we tend to be big candy-asses when it comes to sulfuric acid rain. But ...

“Apollo and Venus” (Otto van Veen, c. 1595-1600) in a badly damaged state, after being discovered in a storage closet at Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines, Iowa (courtesy Hoyt Sherman Place) It’s the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa -- A painting found in the dusty attic of Des Moines' historic Hoyt Sherman Place entertainment venue has turned out to be a big deal. CBS News affiliate KCCI-TV reports that the ...