it tumbled down 6.26 minutes into its nearly 18-minute flight. Experts say the third stage did not explode, as speculated. In fact, as the rocket coasted along while losing altitude and thrust ...

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) The company posted a statement on X reading, "As if the flight test was not ...

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface ...

One of China's commercial rockets returns to flight. The Kinetica-1 rocket launched Wednesday for the first time since a failure doomed its previous attempt to reach orbit in December ...

SpaceX's Starship mega rocket test faced failure. The upper stage spun out of control and leaked fuel. It made an uncontrolled reentry over the Indian Ocean. Contact was lost mid-flight during the ...

LAS CRUCES — Spaceport America was the site of a seminal moment in rocketry last week, when Texas-based Venus Aerospace conducted the first test flight of a rocket propelled by a new hypersonic ...

"We are trying to do something that is impossibly hard," Dan Huot, of SpaceX's communications team, said during the Flight 9 webcast today. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

In part because of this new wrinkle, the FAA has expanded the hazard area for Flight 9 compared to past Starship launches. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching ...

Much was riding on Flight 9 for Elon Musk’s giant moon and Mars rocket after debris from January and March flights fell into the Atlantic Ocean, disrupting air travel. transcript The spacecraft ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX suffers another setback. The Starship took off from Texas on Tuesday and exploded in mid-flight. The massive rocket leaked propellant and spun out of control. It's the third ...

New Zealand aerospace entrepreneur Mark Rocket will become the first Kiwi to travel to space after securing a spot on an upcoming Blue Origin suborbital flight. Six passengers, including Rocket ...

The Starship vehicle still met an untimely end when it spun out of control about halfway through its flight without achieving some of its most important objectives. The test came to an end as Elon ...