Bezos plans to compete directly with SpaceX's rockets, the company owned by his rival Elon Musk, with the New Glenn rocket, named in honor of John Glenn, the first NASA astronaut to orbit the Earth.

Bezos has heavily funded the company ... Blue Origin hopes to launch about a half-dozen more New Glenn flights this year — and eventually, it may haul spacecraft and astronauts into orbit ...

Blue Origin announced plans to lay off about 10% of its workforce — or more than 1,000 employees — nearly a month after the ...

Blue Origin envisions six to eight New Glenn flights this year, with the next one coming up this spring. In a weekend interview, Bezos declined to disclose his personal investment in the program.

The company hopes to stick the booster landing this time. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The second launch of Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket could be just a few months away. The 320-foot-tall (98 ...

The rocket could pose some serious competition for SpaceX, further fueling the rivalry between Blue Origin’s founder Jeff Bezos and SpaceX’s Elon Musk. New Glenn is a partially reusable ...

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is taking over as CEO of rocket startup Relativity Space, which has ambitions to reach Mars.

Pop star Katy Perry and journalist Lauren Sanchez, who is engaged to billionaire Jeff Bezos, are set to join an all-female crew on Blue Origin's next suborbital spaceflight, the company announced ...

Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida ... with heavy funding by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the 320-foot (98-meter) rocket carried an an ...

Bezos took part in the action from Mission Control, standing with crossed arms as he gazed out a bank of windows and watched New Glenn soar. “We did it! Orbital,” Blue Origin’s CEO Dave Limp ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The second launch of Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket could be just a few months away. The 320-foot-tall (98-meter-tall) New Glenn lifted off for the first time on Jan. 16 ...