Shrugging off bad weather, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched its powerful New Glenn rocket on its maiden flight early Thursday ...

Blue Origin successfully launched the rocket after an attempt earlier in the week was scrubbed. The flight is a crucial test of the company’s ability to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

New Glenn is capable of carrying 50 tons (45 metric tons) of payload to low Earth orbit (LEO). SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, ...

Bezos’ space company Blue Origin started at about the same time as Musk’s SpaceX but since then Musk’s firm has launched more than 400 of its Falcon 9 rockets into orbit and is testing out its giant ...

During the flight, the rocket's first stage failed to land on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean, but its primary goal of ...

Lauren Sanchez is one proud fiancee. The businesswoman shared a celebratory post after Jeff Bezos ' Blue Origin launched ...

The 320-foot New Glenn rocket was initially scheduled to launch early Monday with a prototype satellite aboard.

The rocket’s first attempt to launch on Monday was scrubbed around because ice had accumulated on a propellant line.

The journey marked the first time Blue Origin – the space travel company owned by Amazon billionaire Bezos – has sent ...

Shrugging off bad weather, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched its ... which was standing by several hundred miles downrange in the Atlantic Ocean. NASA's WB-57 photo-reconnaissance jet was flying ...

New Glenn’s maiden voyage ramps up an ongoing space race between Blue Origin and SpaceX, which were respectively founded the world’s two richest people. Bezos currently has an estimated net worth of ...