The Super Heavy booster, meanwhile, was successfully caught in the launch tower's mechanical arms for only the second time ...

While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

Starship experienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly," which is a phrase SpaceX coined to describe an explosion.

“We can confirm that we did lose the ship,” said SpaceX engineer Kate Tice during the company's livestream. Musk wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the Starship experienced a ...

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BOCA CHICA BEACH — SpaceX’s Starship has been grounded after the mega-rocket exploded minutes into a test flight Thursday, raining flaming debris from the sky and disrupting commercial ...

A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes after launching from Texas on Thursday, forcing airline flights over the ...

SpaceX's test-to-failure development approach has in the past included spectacular failures as the company pushes Starship prototypes to their engineering limits. Thursday's test failure ...

SpaceX’s test-to-failure development approach has in the past included spectacular failures as the company pushes Starship prototypes to their engineering limits. Thursday’s test failure, though, ...

when SpaceX lost touch with Starship roughly nine minutes after liftoff. Kate Tice, SpaceX's senior manager of quality systems engineering, said the company had lost the ship, and SpaceX wrote on ...

SpaceX plans to launch the seventh full-scale test flight of its massive Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket Thursday ...

SpaceX is set to launch the seventh test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday. The company has an hour window, from 5 p.m. ET to 6 p.m. ET, for the launch from its private "Starbase" facility ...