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NASA's new pictures of rare interstellar comet come as it aims to unravel origins
NASA revealed the latest close-up images on Wednesday of a rare interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS, which was named after the telescope in Chile that first spotted it, making a one-time journey through our solar system.
On a cool October morning in 2025, a sleek jet streaked across the sky above California’s Mojave Desert. This was NASA and Lockheed Martin’s X-59, an experimental airplane designed to fly faster than the speed of sound,
NASA's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft launched aboard Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket Thursday afternoon from Cape Canaveral, beginning their journey to Mars with arrival expected in 2027.
Strong solar storms responsible for breathtaking auroras across the U.S. have delayed the launch of Blue Origin's big new rocket.
New Glenn is set to lift off from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The launch window opens at 2:57 p.m. and closes at 4:25 p.m. ET. Blue Origin will begin livestreaming the event approximately 20 minutes before liftoff, and you can watch right here.
Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin. Its New Glenn rocket, with liftoff from Florida, is carrying a Mars-bound spacecraft. How to watch from Treasure Coast
Created in 2000 by Bezos, Amazon’s founder, Blue Origin already holds a NASA contract for the third moon landing by astronauts under the Artemis program. Elon Musk’s SpaceX beat out Blue Origin for the first and second crew landings, using Starships, nearly 100 feet taller than Bezos’ New Glenn.
Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its towering New Glenn rocket on a landmark second mission.