Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin back in September 2000, months after the Y2K scare. Now, nearly a quarter-century later — and years after competitor SpaceX grew to dominate the world's commercial space industry — Bezos' company is …

SPACE debris raining down on Earth is increasingly at risk of causing "catastrophic" collisions with aircraft, a damning new report has revealed. A sharp rise in the number of rocket launches has fuelled uncontrolled reentries of space debris - …

TOMORROW it will be exactly 55 years since mankind first - and last - stepped foot on the Moon. The anniversary has arrived in a refuelling period, as the US ramps up efforts to return, and forge more permanent connections to the lunar surface. 4 Neil …

Judging by a new set of tracks, NASA's Perseverance rover appears it may have taken a brief detour to Walt Disney World in Florida, despite it being on Mars for the past two years. Guests visiting EPCOT can now come across a tire tread like that left …

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin readied the company's powerful New Glenn rocket for its long-awaited maiden flight early Sunday, kicking off a high-stakes bid to compete head-to-head with Elon Musk's SpaceX and its industry dominating Falcon family of …

A LARGE glowing ring of metal plummeted on a village in Kenya on Monday, in a shocking reminder of Earth's looming space debris problem. Villagers discovered the "red and hot" object, which is suspected to be a rocket separation ring, on 30 …

+ James E. Webb ran the fledgling space agency from February 1961 to October 1968. He believed that NASA had to strike a balance between human space flight and science. The man whose name NASA has chosen to bestow upon the successor to the Hubble Space …

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope are astounding. With its deep infrared eyes, the telescope is illuminating regions of the Universe with never-before-possible clarity. The telescope is a collaboration between …

NASA on Tuesday revealed the clearest deep space image of the early universe ever, thanks to its groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The image, which possibly shows the universe from as far back as 13 billion years ago, was the first stunning …

The Columbia disaster occurred On Feb. 1, 2003, when NASA’s space shuttle Columbia broke up as it returned to Earth, killing the seven astronauts on board. NASA suspended space shuttle flights for more than two years as it investigated the cause of the …