Planets are formed when dust and rock in a disk around a young star collide and combine to form ever larger bodies. This so-called accretion is not yet fully understood. Astrophysicists at the ...

UP Aerospace, a Denver-based company created in 1998, conducted its first suborbital flight from Spaceport America in 2006, which was also the inaugural flight from the spaceport. UP Aerospace ...

Blue Origin just launched a first-of-its kind mission to suborbital space. The company, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff ...

Partners use Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket to test out technologies bound for the moon—without actually sending them there ...

For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level ...

set spaceflight records for the fourth consecutive year with 259 launches worldwide and one launch attempt roughly every 34 ...

In a first, the Jeff Bezos-led spaceflight company simulated lunar gravity on a suborbital rocket to test various science ...

"The payloads will experience at least two minutes of lunar gravity forces, a first for New Shepard and made possible in part through support from NASA." ...

Find out how NASA is preparing for important technologies and instruments for upcoming Moon and space exploration missions.

Blue Origin launched a spacecraft that can simulate lunar gravity into suborbital space during a research flight from West ...

Astrophysicists at the University of Duisburg-Essen were able to make significant observations of collision speed and electrical charge of the particles through experiments on a suborbital flight.