Partners use Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket to test out technologies bound for the moon—without actually sending them there ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Of all the planets in our solar system apart from Earth, Saturn tends to steal the show with its breathtaking rings, which have fascinated people for centuries.

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

More than 3 billion years ago, when the Moon’s volcanic mare (the dark lunar “seas”) were formed, the Moon was rife with ...

American private space company Blue Origin managed to simulate the gravity of the Moon for about two minutes during New Shepard flight ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity without straying too far from home.

Launch of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket system on Feb. 4, 2025. During the flight test, the capsule at the top ...

Lunar Trailblazer is part of a growing list of probes and landers heading toward the moon to search for water ice.