Rocket technology predates space exploration by almost a thousand years, and although today's computerized multi-ton launch vehicles are a lot more capable than 11th-century gunpowder-assisted ...

With Earth at the bottom, the New Glenn rocket is visible as a faint streak crossing the image from the bottom right to the upper left. “This was not an easy photograph to take,” Pettit wrote ...

Nearly a quarter century after Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, the rocket company is poised for its most defining moment to date: sending a vehicle to orbit for the first time. The new target ...