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Heads up, future space travelers: No more commercial astronaut wings will be awarded from the Federal Aviation Administration after this year.

Michael Strahan, who played in the NFL from 1993 to 2007, will tote a football on his suborbital jaunt with Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin on Saturday.

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy periodically hiccups, burping a "mini-jet" out into space.

The former NFL star and "Good Morning America" co-anchor Michael Strahan launched into space on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket Saturday (Dec. 11)

The sterling silver necklace, bearing the LLAP symbol, went aloft on a Blue Origin flight with the personal items of Laura Shepard Churchley.

Blue Origin successfully launched its first six-person crew into space on Saturday (Dec. 11), and in the process, set six new space records.

On Dec. 11, 2021, Blue Origin launched former NFL football star and Good Morning America host Michael Strahan to space alongside five crewmates on the New Shepard rocket's NS-19 mission. Strahan launched on a suborbital ...

The third crewed flight of a Blue Origin New Shepard launch system was conducted today. The "RSS First Step" left Earth just after 10:00 am ET for a quick flight above the Karman Line followed by a perfect landing of...

Blue Origin launched its third crewed New Shepard suborbital mission Dec. 11, carrying six people on a brief flight to the edge of space. SpaceNews

Three individuals are adapting to life aboard the International Space Station following Tuesday's launch and docking aboard a Russian crew ship....

The city of Fairbanks, the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska, and its surroundings, are featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image....

During the development of life on planet Earth over billions of years, iron deficiency may have stimulated evolution.

A greenhouse in Antarctica testing technologies that could one day grow food for Mars colonists has produced an abundant harvest of greens, vegetables and spices.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, is about to send former NFL great Michael Strahan into space--with a football.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is set to blast its third private crew to space on Saturday, this time including the daughter of the first American astronaut.

The Federal Aviation Administration will stop awarding commercial astronaut wings at the end of this year, five months after it revised the criteria for receiving the wings. SpaceNews

The 17-year-old program met its goal in raising awareness and the names will still be listed online, the agency said.

Laura Shepard Churchley is set to launch on a Blue Origin flight Saturday (Dec. 11).