Chicagoans gathered at Alder Planetarium to witness a significant step forward to returning people to the moon.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Smithsonian executive Elizabeth Babcock has been tapped to lead the nation's oldest planetarium, the Adler Planetarium. The ...

Artemis II's astronauts splashed down in the pacific ocean off Southern California Friday evening. Space lovers across the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Adler Planetarium opened in 1930 as the first planetarium in the western hemisphere, and one of its main attractions was a star projector: the Zeiss Mark II. This year - after a ...

As the oldest planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, the Adler Planetarium has garnered a reputation for feeling a bit dated in recent years. But the planetarium’s astrophysicists are working on “new ...

Jim Lovell is most famous as the man to utter the words, "Houston, we've had a problem," the start of the now legendary Apollo 13 disaster. He died Friday at the age of 97, but for years he called ...

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