Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket has officially launched, marking a pivotal moment in Jeff Bezos' ongoing rivalry with SpaceX ...

The small near-Earth object 2024 PT5 captured the world’s attention last year after a NASA-funded telescope discovered it lingering close to, but never orbiting, our planet for several months.

Flawed rocket launches by SpaceX and Blue Origin still leave both companies in position to dominate the space sector.

Florida’s sky briefly lit up during the night as one of a handful of big new American-made rockets took flight. It was the first time a new space company achieved orbit on the first launch attempt.

The Blue Ghost Lunar Lander soared out of the Florida coastline and into space, shining as bright as a Central Texas firefly ...

NASA pulled these spacecraft from the mission ... Rockets are phenomenally complicated machines, supporting the use of “rocket science” as a term for anything seen as extra difficult.

Rocket science has always been an exceedingly iterative process, one in which a whole lot of launches have to come to ruin before the engineers get things right. During NASA’s early days ...

Instead of designing a new test rig that could inflict all kinds of wind, rain and other dramatic weather events on the Saturn V rockets, NASA took a more rustic approach to rocket science.

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