Blue Origin has announced a "super heavy" New Glenn 9x4 rocket capable of carrying 70 metric tons to orbit—a 50% payload increase. The upgraded rocket, featuring nine BE-4 engines and a wider fairing, follows the successful second flight of the standard New Glenn last week.

NASA and Blue Origin have launched the twin ESCAPADE spacecraft to Mars aboard a New Glenn rocket. The mission, led by UC Berkeley and built by Rocket Lab, will take a unique multi-year journey to study the solar wind's erosion of the Martian atmosphere, providing vital safety data for future human missions.

NASA and L3Harris Technologies have successfully tested the second new RS-25 engine for the Artemis V mission. The engine, built with advanced 3D printing that cuts costs by 30%, fired for 500 seconds at 111% power, ensuring a sustainable engine supply for America's return to the Moon.

Facing pressure from NASA, SpaceX has revealed a simplified lunar lander based on its Starship rocket. The new design abandons a complex orbital refueling plan, slashing the number of required launches from up to 30 to less than 10 to achieve a crewed Moon landing and speed up the Artemis program timeline.

This American experimental supersonic aircraft could slash coast-to-coast flight times — and silence the sonic boom. Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, in partnership with NASA, successfully completed the first flight of the X-59, a revolutionary, quiet supersonic aircraft designed to pave the way for faster commercial air travel.  The X-59 took off from Skunk Works' facility at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, before landing near NASA's Armstrong Flight Research C

SpaceX has launched the 11th test flight of its mega Starship rocket. Starship thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas. The booster peeled away and made a controlled entry into the Gulf of Mexico as planned. The spacecraft skimmed space before descending into the Indian Ocean. It was the 11th test flight for a full-scale Starship, which SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk intends to use to send people to Mars. Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocke

SpaceX is gearing up to conduct 11th flight test of Starship on October 13. The test is key for NASA, which hopes of making it to the...

James Dottin prepares a secondary ion mass spectrometer to analyze lunar samples from Apollo 17, Credit:Courtesy of James Dottin When...