Space

A new study has found a fast radio burst has been spotted coming from a galaxy 500 million light-years from Earth and it's repeating every 16 days. No one knows why.

Europe and NASA's Solar Orbiter rocketed into space Sunday night on an unprecedented mission to capture the first pictures of the sun's elusive poles.

A Ponce Inlet charter captain hauled in an unusual catch on a recent fishing trip. Capt. David Stokes says he snagged part of a Dragon – a Dragon space capsule, that is.

Biomedical sciences students at Wendell Krinn Technical High School in New Port Richey were chosen out of more than 29,000 students from the U.S., Canada, and Brazil to have their experiment blasted up to the ISS. 

Chocolate chip cookies became the first food baked in space from raw ingredients -- and they took two hours to bake, NASA says.

NASA has narrowed down the number of names for its next Mars rover, which is currently going by "Mars 2020" until it gets an actual name.

SpaceX blew up one of its own rockets Sunday morning as part of a key test to show that its new Dragon capsule is safe for astronauts, bringing the company one step closer to its first crewed flight.

Mankind's return to the moon and eventually to Mars will be made possible in part by equipment made right here in the Bay Area.

Florida’s aerospace agency has launched a new front in its effort to make the Sunshine State more enticing as a potential player in the nation’s up-and-coming Space Force.

Last night’s SpaceX satellite launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was the first mission conducted with the support of the nation’s newest military service, less than a month after President Trump signed the bill authorizing its creation.

When first rocket launch of 2020 lights up the skies over Cape Canaveral next week, it will mark the first official launch supported by the new U.S. Space Force.