A SpaceX Starship's upper stage exploded minutes after launch from Texas on Thursday, and the rocket was declared a "loss" in the seventh test flight of the heavy-lift spacecraft. The mission was ...

SpaceX’s seventh Starship test flight encountered unexpected challenges when communication with the ship was lost approximately 8.5 minutes into the flight. The test, initially set to last an hour, ...

Starship's previous six test flights occurred in April and November of 2023 and March, June, October and November of last ...

SpaceX is also flying rudimentary catch fittings on Starship to test their thermal performance on reentry. The ship will fly ...

SpaceX, Elon Musk's space technology company valued at $350 billion, successfully launched its seventh test flight on Thursday—then lost it. About 20 minutes after successfully launching the rocket at ...

In the lead-up to this launch, SpaceX confirmed it planned to launch a new version of Starship. The updated spacecraft was ...

Telemetry from the Starship froze eight minutes and 27 seconds after launch following unexpected engine shutdowns or failures. SpaceX later confirmed the ship's destruction in a posting on X, using a ...

Angry Astronaut and Nextbigfuture commenter are making the case that SpaceX and Elon Musk must switch to nuclear thermal rockets to colonize Mars. I will ...

"If possible, take a photograph of the object (without touching it) alongside another object for scale," a public advisory ...

While Elon Musk’s spaceflight company repeated a spectacular catch of its powerful booster stage, the upper stage experienced ...

And a fair few of these folks posted their photos and videos on X, the social media site owned by SpaceX founder and CEO Elon ...

The FAA says it is investigating reports that debris from the failed Starship test flight landed, and caused property damage ...