A two-person crew, instead of the usual four that fly on a SpaceX Crew Dragon, are about to launch to the International Space Station.

Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Pacific off the Southern California coast a day after departing the orbiting lab.

Space pioneer and legendary astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the 1970 Apollo 13 crew to safety after an oxygen tank explosion, died on Thursday. Meanwhile, President Trump helped strike a peace deal between bitter adversaries Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Actor Tom Hanks remembers Jim Lovell following the Apollo 13 astronaut's death at 97, calling him a visionary who dared to explore space.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured its most detailed image yet of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The rare comet is expected to remain visible to ground-based telescopes through September before passing behind the Sun and reappearing during the winter.

The comet is hurtling our way at 130,000 mph, but will veer closer to Mars than Earth, keeping a safe distance from both.