The Amazon founder’s space company marked a major milestone Thursday with the first test flight of its New Glenn rocket.

Blue Origin's NS-29 New Shepard rocket is expected to launch by late Jan. 31 after a delay if all goes well. Here's what to know

"The payloads will experience at least two minutes of lunar gravity forces, a first for New Shepard and made possible in part through support from NASA."

One of the key questions about Blue Origin is whether it will push toward full reusability with New Glenn. In 2021, Ars first reported on an effort codenamed "Project Jarvis" to develop a stainless steel upper stage that could be reused. The company even built a test tank, although the effort was eventually shelved.

UPDATE: Weather forced Blue Origin to scrub the company’s scheduled launch on Tuesday, Jan. 28. “In addition to thick clouds we’ve been tracking all morning, we also encountered an issue related to the booster’s avionics. New launch target ...

Ehud Behar, an astrophysics professor at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, lauded Blue Origin's achievement. "Blue Origin has achieved an admirable feat by making it into orbit on the ...

Blue Origin is key to Amazon's ability to compete with SpaceX Starlink. Jeff Bezos has finally done it. He's finally reached space with an honest-to-goodness orbital-class rocket. Ten years ago, Bezos ignited a feud with SpaceX founder Elon Musk when his Blue Origin rocket company launched a suborbital New Shepard rocket to the edge of space and then landed it back on Earth.

Israel received a list from Hamas detailing the condition of the 26 remaining hostages scheduled to be released in the initial phase of the cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, according to a ...

Eight of the remaining hostages set to be released by Hamas in the first phase of a ceasefire agreement with Israel are dead, according to an Israeli government spokesperson. The rest of the 33 ...

Eight of the hostages due for release in the first phase of a truce deal between Israel and Hamas are dead, Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said Monday.

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin joined the billionaire’s space race in earnest when its New Glenn rocket roared from a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in the early morning hours of Jan. 16. The second stage with the Blue Ring payload successfully reached orbit. However, an attempt to land the first stage on a drone ship failed.

The White House said that a ceasefire involving Israel and Lebanon had been extended in a Sunday statement. The ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, announced by former President Biden in Novem ...