Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue Origin is a central player in NASA’s moon project, but those plans took a big hit Thursday night when one of Jeff Bezos’ rockets catastrophically exploded into a giant mushroom ...

Four astronauts blasted off on a journey to the Moon on Wednesday. Here are some cool launch-day details you may not have picked up on. Reading time 4 minutes I’m still reeling from the launch of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission yesterday. As someone who wasn ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts are on their way to the moon. NASA's colossal Space Launch System rocket lifted off at 3:35 p.m. Pacific time from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking the start of the 10-day Artemis II mission.

The first flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket seems to have a payload. Instead of launching a sports car, as SpaceX did with its first Falcon Heavy rocket, Jeff Bezos’s space company will likely launch a pair of Mars probes for NASA. NASA is aware ...

NASA's Artemis II moon rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on April 1, 2026. Story Connor Greene NASA’s Artemis II mission successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the first time in over 50 years, astronauts from Earth have launched to the moon. NASA's most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System, lit up the evening sky over Florida's Space Coast today (April 1) in a stunning liftoff to ...

A record-breaking new version of Starship, due to launch within days, could form the basis of NASA's ambitious Artemis programme that aims to put humans back on the moon as soon as 2028