Blue Origin, the US space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2000, made its maiden voyage into orbital space Thursday with its brand-new rocket, New Glenn.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space dreams are taking flight on a new level. On Thursday, Bezos' Blue Origin company launched ...

Shrugging off bad weather, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched its powerful New Glenn rocket on its maiden flight early Thursday ...

Privately owned Blue Origin has achieved its goal—a decade in the making—of becoming an orbital launch player, even as it ...

Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin launched its New Glenn mega-rocket for the first time. The milestone is a leap for reusable ...

The successful launch kicks off a new era for Blue Origin, which until now has been stuck with a rocket (called New Shepard) that is not designed to go into orbit, which limits its usefulness.

The uncrewed New Glenn rocket took off at 2:03 a.m. EST from Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Blue Origin said.

It follows in the steps of New Shepard, Blue Origin's first rocket which was named for Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Standing 320 feet (98 meters) tall -- roughly equivalent to a 32 ...

Blue Origin expects the New Glenn to provide a viable alternative to SpaceX's market-dominating Falcon family of rockets.

In October 2024, Blue Origin completed a launch and landing of an uncrewed flight test for its next New Shepard spacecraft, which will one day take humans on suborbital trips high above Earth.