Mixed Success After many delays and scrubs, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has successfully launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit early Thursday morning. The company's rocket, which is 90 feet taller and can produce roughly twice as much thrust at liftoff than SpaceX's Falcon 9,

Shrugging off bad weather, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched its powerful New Glenn rocket on its maiden flight early Thursday, lighting up a cloudy overnight sky as it climbed away from Cape Canaveral in a high-stakes bid to compete with Elon Musk's industry-leading SpaceX.

While Jeff Bezos has spent $14 billion to achieve his first space launch, his billionaire rival has built a thriving business, mostly with other people’s money.

Just past 2 a.m. Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. By reaching orbit, Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket launch has marked a milestone for a commercial space company that has big ambitions.

Blue Origin has launched its New Shepard rocket—a reusable sub-orbital rocket used for space tourism—27 times. It's named after Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Bezos flew in New Shepard on July 20, 2021, crossing the Kármán line, the dividing line between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space.

Billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos was set to celebrate his 61st birthday in grand fashion with the heavy-lift orbital launch of the New Glenn rocket on

Southern California residents who were looking up at the skies early Friday were treated to a dazzling display as SpaceX launched 23 satellites into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.

The first-ever launch of the New Glenn represents a major milestone for the Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, whose Blue Origin spaceflight company has now officially entered the orbital launch market and heavy-lift space industry, setting it up to compete with the likes of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

The billionaire space race entered a new phase today when Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin successfully launched its 320-foot-tall New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it liked to devour sardines.

After Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin nailed its first-ever orbital flight ... SpaceX has long dominated orbital launches with its Falcon 9, swallowing up contracts from private industry, the Pentagon, and NASA. Blue Origin, meanwhile, had been restricted ...

The two founders jousted for years. This week, they found each other on X while their rocket companies launched missions with mixed results.