The Federal Aviation Administration has paused SpaceX's the launch of its Starship rocket as the U.S. agency oversees an investigation by the private company of the breakup after a test launch Thursday.

After numerous delays and a last-minute scrub on Monday, Blue Origin finally launched the inaugural flight of its massive New Glenn rocket.

Privately owned Blue Origin has achieved its goal—a decade in the making—of becoming an orbital launch player, even as it failed to recover its first-stage booster in the ambitious inaugural flight of its New Glenn rocket on its NG-1 mission.

On Thursday, the FAA issued a mishap investigation into Blue Origin’s maiden rocket launch of its New Glenn rocket. Early Thursday morning, the New Glenn rocket took off from Launch Pad 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. While the launch of the ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is the company's first orbital-class launch vehicle. It stands a towering 320 feet tall (98 meters). It features a reusable first stage designed to return to Earth after launch and land on a barge named Jacklyn, after Jeff Bezos ' mother, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Jeff Bezos' humongous reusable rocket, New Glenn, made its way to orbit in its first test flight earlier today.

Recent scientific advances and challenges include SpaceX's Starship explosion, Blue Origin's New Glenn launch, a scent to help find human remains, Australopithecus dietary findings, and a lavish bath uncovered in Pompeii.

After exploding, the craft sent blazing debris across the sky and forced multiple aircraft flying over and near the Caribbean to divert.

In the lead-up to this launch, SpaceX confirmed it planned to launch a new version of Starship. The updated spacecraft was about 6.5 feet (2 meters) taller than the last one. It also included a raft of internal upgrades to avionics and propulsion to bring Starship closer to orbital operations.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to X on Thursday night to explain what his company believes may have caused part of the Starship rocket to experience a "rapid unscheduled disassembly."

The spacecraft’s engines shut down, and contact soon was lost. SpaceX says it will take time to figure out what went wrong.