The more significant surprise over the past decade has been the shift in Musk’s politics and his controversial rise to prominence in that sector, from his purchase and pivot of Twitter to X to his chainsaw-wielding antics at the head of the Department of Government Efficiency earlier this year.

Blue Origin’s Mark I, which is slated to launch this year on a shakedown mission to the lunar south pole, is designed to carry nearly 3.9 tons to any location on the Moon’s surface. By contrast, the fleet of small robotic landers that NASA is backing under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services contracts are designed to carry up to about 1 ton.

Jeff Bezos space company Blue Origin will send its next group of passengers on a brief trip, including one man from Northeast Ohio.

Physicists who record rocket launches and landings are learning important facts about the acoustics of spaceflight.

Arizonans should have yet another chance to see a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soaring high in the sky this week following a launch from California.

Amazon has just put its first Project Kuiper internet satellites into orbit, but when can it start to properly compete with SpaceX's Starlink?

After launching from Cape Canaveral in January, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket could fly again by late spring.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly chomping at the bit to build Trump’s $175 billion “Golden Dome” defense system, designed to protect the U.S. from foreign missiles “even if they are launched from the other side of the world.”