Blue Origin

Bezos might beat Musk to Mars as NASA recruits Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket

Eyeing an August 2024 launch, if spacecraft is ready for its first mission

Science23 Nov 2023 | 24

Blue Origin pulls sheets off cargo lunar lander prototype

NASA: Nice rocket, but what about the dust?

Science30 Oct 2023 | 20

Bezos' engineers dream of Blue Ring space platform in orbit by 2025

A little optimistic, given Blue Origin can't even deliver it themselves yet

Science17 Oct 2023 | 19

Amazon to launch first Project Kuiper internet satellites

Bezos rocket biz not involved this time – now that's a blue origin

Networks05 Oct 2023 | 2

Amazon's three rocket makers insist Project Kuiper will launch on schedule

It's not as if space is hard, is it?

Science13 Sep 2023 | 8

The only thing launched for Amazon's Project Kuiper is a lawsuit

Updated Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk... not the bestest of buddies?

Networks04 Sep 2023 | 15

Blue Origin tells staff to catch next rocket back to their desks

Face colleagues five days a week, Jeff Bezos' space firm says

On-Prem03 Aug 2023 | 39

Japanese balloon startup wants to 'democratize space' – with $180,000 ticket price

Aim is to bring entry fee down to tens of thousands of dollars, if you have that lying around

Offbeat23 Feb 2023 | 21

Amazon founder Bezos to donate 'majority' of $126bn fortune

Comment Climate change goals? Tick. Upping wages and improving working conditions for warehouse staff? Come on Jeff, charity begins at home

Offbeat15 Nov 2022 | 39

NASA sees our space future as both government and privately run

Interview Top official spells out simply why America is going back to the Moon

Science04 Sep 2022 | 23

Commercial space station Orbital Reef's design phase passes NASA review

Ready or not, ISS is coming down in 2031, and Amazon, Boeing and more are ready for business

Science23 Aug 2022 | 23

No more Commercial Space Astronaut Wings after this year because FAA has been handing them out like candy

You can still get a badge if you go now

Science13 Dec 2021 | 16

What will life in orbit look like after the ISS? NASA hands out new space station contracts

The end is coming, and nobody wants a homeless 'naut

Science03 Dec 2021 | 42

So it is possible for Jeff Bezos to lose: Court dismisses Blue Origin complaint about Moon contract award to Elon Musk

NASA and SpaceX to resume working on the next lunar lander

Science05 Nov 2021 | 28

Jeff Bezos wants to build a business park in space

Pretty ambitious – none of this Blue-Origin-led consortium can put humans in orbit yet

Science26 Oct 2021 | 46

Shatner breaks the age barrier, goes where no nonagenarian has gone before with Blue Origin rocket trip

Gives classic monologue upon landing

Offbeat13 Oct 2021 | 48

Pretend starship captain to take trip in real space capsule

William Shatner joins crew for Bezos' number two

Science04 Oct 2021 | 151

Blue Origin employees complain of sexist culture that ignores safety concerns

At Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, billionaire egos create fear of flying

Science01 Oct 2021 | 24

Virgin Galactic cleared to fly again after a spell on Federal Aviation Administration's naughty step

More airspace and a hotline to the authority fixed up for the next flight

Science30 Sep 2021 | 20

More Boots on Moon delays: NASA stops work on SpaceX human landing system as Blue Origin lawsuit rolls on

US agency agrees to pause in exchange for 'expedited' schedule. That'll be a first for Artemis

Science20 Aug 2021 | 75

Blue Origin sues NASA for awarding SpaceX $3bn contract to land next American boots on the Moon

Updated In Jeff's world, it's not 'you snooze, you lose', it's 'you lose, you sues'

Science16 Aug 2021 | 54

US govt calmly but firmly tells Blue Origin it already has a ride to the Moon's surface with SpaceX, thanks

Hit us up next time you're free, though

Science02 Aug 2021 | 36

Bezos offers to knock $2bn off his bill to NASA to stay in the running for Moon contract

It's not a bribe when it's a payment waiver

Science26 Jul 2021 | 30

Good news: Jeff Bezos went to space. Bad news: He's back

Baldly going where beardy has gone before, except a bit higher

Science20 Jul 2021 | 149

Buyer of $28m Blue Origin space ticket has a scheduling conflict – so this teen will go instead

Bezos and his bro on rocket jaunt

Science16 Jul 2021 | 54

Richard Branson plans to trump Jeff Bezos by 9 days in billionaires' space race

The flight of the bearded one means Shepard will be second. Again

Science02 Jul 2021 | 88

Bezos v Branson: Battle of the wannabe Space Barons as Virgin Galactic cleared by FAA to start flying customers

Amazon boss's Blue Origin New Shepard launch currently scheduled for 20 July

Science29 Jun 2021 | 28

USA's efforts to stop relying on Russian-built rocket engines derailed by issues with Blue Origin's BE-4

Updated Government Accountability Office warns of build-your-own-booster delays

Science22 Jun 2021 | 45

Intrepid Change.org user launches petition to make Jeff Bezos' space trip one-way

Jeff's younger brother and mystery hyper-rich paying passenger may end up as unfortunate collateral damage

Bootnotes16 Jun 2021 | 71

$28m scores mystery bidder right to breathe same air as Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos in Blue Origin flight

Burning dollars faster than liquid oxygen and hydrogen

Science14 Jun 2021 | 33

There are a lot of people out there who'd like to fire Jeff Bezos into space – but he's doing the honours himself

With his brother in tow, poor sod

Science07 Jun 2021 | 50

Blue Origin sets its price: $1.4m minimum for trip into space

Comment Expensive free fall experience plus 'astronaut' bragging rights

Science20 May 2021 | 35

If you're the 1% and have 10 mins to spare this July, bid for a place on first Blue Origin space tourism launch

For everyone else, get back to work and ordering those Amazon Prime deals

Science06 May 2021 | 21

Not so fast, SpaceX: $3bn NASA Moon landing contract blocked by rivals' gripes

Blue Origin, Dynetics cry foul

Science04 May 2021 | 38

Blue Origin sends Mannequin Skywalker aloft again, testing out comfier capsule for future space tourists

Video One day you too can experience a few minutes of free fall with great visuals... if you can afford it

Science15 Apr 2021 | 15

Bezos to the Moon: Blue Origin fires up BE-7 engine to be used in human lunar mission

In Brief Also: Orion challenges and a quarter century since SOHO's launch

Science07 Dec 2020 | 9

Bezos to the Moon: Blue Origin joins SpaceX and Dynetics in a three-horse lunar lander race

NASA selects three contenders for flag-in-Moon prize

Science01 May 2020 | 34

Jeff Bezos bungs $10bn at climate change after chump change for Oz bush fires

Then goes and opens rocket engine factory

Science18 Feb 2020 | 38

No box shifting, no Buck Rogers. Bezos-backed Blue Origin blasts off once again

Postcards from the edge... of space?

Science12 Dec 2019 | 21

No wonder Bezos wants to move industry into orbit: In space, no one can hear you* scream

* And by you, we mean slain or injured Amazon warehouse workers

Science26 Nov 2019 | 101

Billionaire Bezos unveils plans to land humans on Moon, with a little help from some old friends

Blue Origin and industry vets eye a slice of NASA's lunar lander largesse

Science23 Oct 2019 | 31

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin unveils 'Blue Moon' lander, making it way too easy for manchild Elon Musk to take the piss

More like Blue BALLS amirite? lolol I'm 11

Science10 May 2019 | 59

Clever girl: SpaceX's Mars-bound Raptor engine looks like it works just fine

Roundup Plus: Lucy in the sky with Trojans, and ISS 'nauts splash around in a water party

Science05 Feb 2019 | 32

A Delta IV Heavy heads for space at last while New Horizons' fumes OK for 'future missions'

Roundup Also: Is that an aerospike in your pocket or are bells more your thing?

Science22 Jan 2019 | 22

Scrubtastic end to 2018 as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Arianespace all opt for another day on Earth

Roundup But spare a thought for 'nauts coming home in punctured Soyuz

Science18 Dec 2018 | 12

Mannequin Skywalker takes high ground on Bezos-backed rocket

Blue Origin test flight reaches 107km apogee and lands safely

Science30 Apr 2018 | 45

Jeff Bezos sells one million Amazon shares, makes one billion dollars

He'll probably burn it all up at high altitude ... in a rocket

On-Prem06 Nov 2017 | 23

Jeff Bezos fires off a blue dart, singes Elon Musk and SpaceX

Blue Origin's new and rather large rocket engine fires on first full test

Science23 Oct 2017 | 68

Your Amazon order is confirmed: Eutelsat via Blue Origin. Estimated delivery date: 2022

Video Five years? What's the matter? Can't afford Prime?

Science08 Mar 2017 | 20

Amazon supremo Bezos' Blue Origin blows its top over Texas desert

Vid + pic Successful escape capsule test and dual landing

Science05 Oct 2016 | 29

Jeff Bezos' thrusting cylinder makes Elon Musk's look minuscule

Amazon CEO's rocket company reveals its orbit-and-beyond-capable boosters

Science13 Sep 2016 | 68

Bezos' Blue Origin's first live Webcast a no-explosion yawnfest

Short-chuted crew capsule just fine, thanks

Science19 Jun 2016 | 27

Champagne weekend for Blue Origin with third launch

Bezos' booster drops, doesn't break, again

Science04 Apr 2016 | 29

Jeff Bezos to give forth at US space symposium

Blue Origin head honcho booked for top industry gig

Science09 Mar 2016 | 12

Suck it, Elon – Jeff Bezos' New Shepard space rocket blasts off, lands in one piece

Pics and vid VTOL win for Blue Origin

Science24 Nov 2015 | 103

PRIME SPACE: Bezos in Cape Canaveral SPACE PODULE debut

No he's not just pleased to see you, that IS a rocket in his pocket

Science15 Sep 2015 | 13