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Here's everything you need to know about Blue Origin's launch of Jeff Bezos and his crew on the New Shepard spacecraft July 20, 2021.

Blue Origin is a private spaceflight company founded by Jeff Bezos.

Get your space dreams flying with this basic set of rockets and accessories

From science kits to essentials, we've got something for every budget ahead of the back to school rush.

U.K. rocket start-up Skyrora wants to collect the remains of the iconic British satellite Prospero from low Earth orbit and bring it to Earth to be displayed in a museum.

Here's a look at the best Lego Star Wars sets for 2021, some old, many new and all overflowing with the Force.

The Hubble Space Telescope has powered on once again! NASA was able to turn the telescope back on after successfully switching to a backup computer on the telescope following weeks of computer problems.

NASA has released new visualisations of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon to commemorate the first-ever up close exploration of the distant worlds.

The brilliant fireworks of 90 nearby galaxies shine new light on how stars are born.

Methane tends to only be made by biological life, so scientists are wondering if the source is from alien microbes.

Chile peppers are growing on the International Space Station as part of a new experiment that aims to expand the range of space-grown foods ahead of a possible future mission to Mars.

Theories that attempt to resolve the so-called black hole information paradox predict that black holes are much more complicated than general relativity suggests.

Recent developments at the forefront of astronomy allow us to observe that planets orbiting other stars have weather.

China's Zhurong Mars rover has given us nice, up-close looks at some of the hardware that helped it land safely on the Red Planet two months ago.

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet pulled out all the stops in orbit for a Bastille Day on the International Space Station.

New Shepard is a rocket manufactured by Blue Origin for space tourism. It is designed to take up to six passengers into suborbital space inside of a crew capsule.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and the spaceflight company Blue Origin, will donate $200 million to the Smithsonian, the Institution announced Wednesday (July 14).

A dazzling new animation puts you aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during its epic flybys last month of Jupiter and the huge moon Ganymede.

It's summer in the Northern Hemisphere — and that means it's fire season. Satellites are pitching in to monitor dozens of blazes nationwide.

Jeff Bezos, who made his fortune as the founder of Amazon also created Blue Origin, a space company focused on bringing humans into suborbit.