Astronomers have discovered an intriguing, potentially habitable, super-earth not far from us in cosmic terms.

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our Moon. Its characteristics led scientists to ask: is it a chip off the old lunar block, ...

Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its massive New Glenn rocket into orbit for the first time early Thursday ... Bezos envisions shifting heavy industry ...

The Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin sent its massive new rocket into space Thursday — and carried a prototype satellite into orbit thousands of miles above the Earth’s surface. The seven-engine ...

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A Giant Leap for Blue Origin Standing at a towering 322 feet (98 meters), New Glenn is Blue Origin's most powerful rocket to date. Named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, it's ...

But it will likely aim to burn up over a remote area of the ocean — as is common for second-stage rockets, which either blaze back to Earth or are maneuvered into a “graveyard orbit.” ...

"A potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is one that has an orbit intersecting the Earth's orbit around the Sun by less than 0.05 astronomical units (1 AU is the distance to the Sun), that's just ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 36 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux) ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday, sending up a prototype ...

they were unable to return home on what should have been a week-long test flight and it will be late March or early April before they can set foot on Earth again. But after months in orbit ...

New Glenn—named after storied NASA astronaut John Glenn—successfully delivered its payload to medium Earth orbit, achieving its primary mission objective. Following the successful deployment ...