Don Pettit arrived in Space City on Sunday (April 20), which happened to be his 70th birthday.

Pope Francis, the second-oldest pope in modern history, has died at age 88, leaving behind a legacy of change in the Catholic Church.

NASA astronaut and keen astrophotographer Don Pettit returned to Earth on his 70th birthday on Sunday, April 21, completing a ...

You wouldn’t have to go back further than the 20th century, however, to find the oldest pope to ever serve. Pope Leo XIII, who ascended to the papacy in 1878, was 93 upon his death in 1903.

Pope Francis died today following a long and public battle with pneumonia. He was 88. Francis still had a ways to go to ...