Astronaut Breaks US Space Record, Gets Call From Trump
Astronaut Peggy Whitson broke the U.S. record Monday for most time in space and talked up Mars during a congratulatory call from President Donald Trump.
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Astronaut Peggy Whitson broke the U.S. record Monday for most time in space and talked up Mars during a congratulatory call from President Donald Trump.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is facing on last adventure around Saturn.
Astronomers found a planet that may have just the right conditions for life - not too hot, not too cold and not so far away.
A supply ship for the International Space Station honored astronaut John Glenn when it blasted off on Tuesday.
NASA says new evidence shows the most likely places to find life beyond Earth are on one of the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
Go outside and look up! For the next couple of days, Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, shines the biggest and brightest it will all year.
SpaceX made history Thursday as the first to reuse the same rocket to send something into space.
After more than 20 years of work, NASA is on the verge of launching a giant telescope intended to open new frontiers in space exploration.
Astronaut Peggy Whitson is flying high - literally. On Thursday, when she floated outside to set up a new parking spot on the International Space Station, she set a new record for the most spacewalks ever performed by a woman.
Astronauts are prepping the International Space Station for a new parking spot and in the process conducted a spacewalk.
In an open letter to President Donald Trump, the science guy has urged him to make continuing advancements in space science and exploration that will define NASA's future for generations to come a priority.
SpaceX postponed the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket due to high winds near the Kennedy Space Center.
Scientist at NASA breathed a sigh of relief after avoiding a major disaster.
Two private citizens shot for the moon and it looks like that's where they are going.
Better late than never. It may be a day late but SpaceX has made good on a 250-mile-high delivery at the International Space Station.
NASA has discovered 7 new Earth-size planets located in the so-called 'habitable zone', the area around a parent start where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water.
The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft waved off its planned rendezvous with the International Space Station due to a navigation error.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are going to have to wait a little longer for their latest shipment of supplies.
To sound of roaring engines and a cheering crowd, a Falcon 9 rocket shot through the clouds, starting its payload on a three-day mission to the International Space Station.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced on Twitter his company's latest launch could be in jeopardy.
New, stunning photos of the rings around Saturn have been released by NASA.
A tragic accident that claimed the life of three astronauts in the early days of NASA's space program is the focus of a new exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center.
Fifty years after America's first space tragedy, a relic of the deadly fire that killed three astronauts is going on display.
Astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, died at the age of 82 in Houston hospital.
It's out with the old and in with the new aboard the International Space Station when Commander Shane Kimbrough and French astronaut Thomas Pesquest performed a spacewalk to replace the station's old batteries.
It's going to be another hot day across South Florida, with some triple-digit feels-like temperatures possible ahead of rising rain chances.
Oil prices spike and the Strait of Hormuz stays paralyzed as Trump rejects Iran's peace proposal and Tehran vows to "fight whenever it is necessary."
Six people were found dead in a Union Pacific Railroad boxcar in Laredo, Texas, at the Mexican border, police there said, without offering any details.
Federal officials will provide an update Monday as 17 Americans exposed to hantavirus on MV Hondius return for monitoring; one shows symptoms, another tests "mildly" positive.
"The Devil Wears Prada 2" edges out "Mortal Kombat II" at the North American box office this weekend.
It's going to be another hot day across South Florida, with some triple-digit feels-like temperatures possible ahead of rising rain chances.
Six people were found dead in a Union Pacific Railroad boxcar in Laredo, Texas, at the Mexican border, police there said, without offering any details.
Federal officials will provide an update Monday as 17 Americans exposed to hantavirus on MV Hondius return for monitoring; one shows symptoms, another tests "mildly" positive.
"The Devil Wears Prada 2" edges out "Mortal Kombat II" at the North American box office this weekend.
Christopher Morel hit a go-ahead single in the eighth to lift the Miami Marlins past the Washington Nationals 5-2 on Sunday afternoon.
In courtroom testimony, Shandelle Maycock recounted the harrowing night her daughter was abandoned in the Everglades, describing the horrors they endured.
A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
The Supreme Court has ruled that, under the Voting Rights Act, Congressional districts can no longer be drawn along racial lines, but can be shaped by partisan aims. The result: A dash to re-draw voting districts in several states. What does this portend for democracy?
Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt opened up about his run for mayor of Los Angeles in an exclusive interview with CBS News.
The U.S. military's latest strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed two men Friday while leaving one survivor.
Alabama lawmakers have approved a plan for new House primaries if courts allow the state to use different congressional districts in this year's elections.
The Trump administration announced a major expansion of its denaturalization campaign targeting foreign-born American citizens accused of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.
CBS News Miami has confirmed from multiple sources that the Miami Dade State Attorney's office is investigating A3.
State Senator Rosalind Osgood is urging Wasserman Schultz not to run in Florida's 22nd Congressional district.
Several commissioners have raised questions about how the center would be funded in future years.
In an interview on Facing South Florida, Wasserman Schultz said the Governor's efforts to redraw the maps will almost certainly violate the Fair Districts constitutional amendment voters in Florida passed in 2010.
The center – which was promised to voters back in 2004 – would take mentally ill individuals out of the jail and move them into a place where they can receive comprehensive treatment and support.
An American on the repatriation flight began showing symptoms of hantavirus and another "tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus," the Department of Health and Human Services says.
More than 100 people from a cruise ship dealing with an outbreak of the rare and deadly hantavirus are set to be disembarked.
In 2002, Zermeño found out he contracted hantavirus after cleaning the family house following the death of his mother and sister. He had been exposed to rodent droppings and became infected.
Three passengers have been evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, as related cases are confirmed in Switzerland and South Africa.
The FDA announced its first authorization of fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes intended for adult smokers, a major policy shift after months of appeals to President Trump from the vaping industry.
AARP is sounding the alarm because it is so easy to fall for these schemes, but there are simple things everyone can do to protect themselves.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Florida insurance policyholders could be seeing some form of relief in their wallets thanks to market reforms made statewide, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
"The Devil Wears Prada 2" edges out "Mortal Kombat II" at the North American box office this weekend.
A trial in the lawsuit between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni was set to begin later in May.
The performance followed similar shows by Madonna in 2024 and Lady Gaga last year on one of the world's most iconic waterfronts.
Attending this year's Kentucky Derby meant more for thoroughbred expert Mark Toothaker, who suffered a seizure from laughing at a whiffed NFL field goal attempt that led to a lifesaving diagnosis.
David Allan Coe also had hits with "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" and "The Ride" among others.