Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Florida's Space Coast hosted a record-shattering 93 orbital rocket launches during 2024. Looking ahead, will this year's total set another new annual record? Following are the latest missions ...

Blue Origin, the rocket company Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos founded, notched one of the most substantial successes in its history on Thursday: sending a rocket to orbit. The debut flight of New ...

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.

The pace of rocket launches has ballooned in recent years, making it a challenge to know what mission is launching and when. In this launch guide, the Space.com news team aims to keep you up to ...

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 ...

“What are those?” “Look up, everybody, look up.” “Whoa. What is that?” “I think that’s rocket.” “Three, two, one.” “We, we did lose all communications with the ship.” ...

One month later, the craft will fly past the moon, using its gravity to adjust the flight path before entering orbit about four months after launch. Two weeks after that, Resilience will attempt ...

What happens now? The second stage of the rocket is now gliding through orbit, carrying the Blue Ring Pathfinder payload. In a short while, the rocket's upper stage will orient itself down towards ...

SpaceX's latest test of its Starship rocket, the world's largest and most powerful launch vehicle, ended in dramatic fashion on Thursday as the upper stage disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean.

The launch of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket is postponed due to a "vehicle subsystem issue" The reusable rocket had been due to set off from Florida, but was delayed multiple times Bezos wants ...

Just six minutes before Jeff Bezos' rocket was set to blast into space at 08:15 GMT (03:15 EST), this morning's launch was called off. There was confusion here in the newsroom as 10-minute ...