NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

When the Cold War heated up in 1946, the U.S. and the Soviet Union took their rivalry from Earth to the stars. Sputnik, the ...

While 2025 saw a record number of launches —including crewed exploration, science missions, and even an historic first ...

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space technology company, designed the New Glenn to compete with fellow billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon rockets in commercial orbital spaceflight ventures. New Glenn was ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket successfully launched for the second time from Florida after days of delays. The mission helped launch a landmark Mars mission for NASA, known as ESCAPADE, that will ...

New Glenn is vertical on the pad and its engines are hot. The second-ever liftoff of Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket is approaching as the launch vehicle undergoes final checkouts at Launch ...

Blue Origin has test fired its New Glenn rocket engine as it makes final preparations for the launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE mission involving twin Mars orbiters. The static test fire of the heavy-lift ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Blue Origin launched its huge New Glenn rocket Thursday with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars. It was only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos’ ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket just launched an interplanetary mission on its second-ever flight — and aced an epic landing at sea. NASA's two-spacecraft ESCAPADE Mars mission is now en route to the ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...

Jared Isaacman, a billionaire and astronaut, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as NASA's 15th administrator. Isaacman will oversee NASA's Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon by ...