SpaceX's Starship might have released harmful air pollutants into the atmosphere, as well as shards of hot metal.

That's about 35 percent of all the aluminum that enters the atmosphere from meteors every year, Barker estimated. The ...

Scientists are not sure how much metallic dust remained in the atmosphere after the most recent SpaceX rocket 'disassembly.' ...

The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...

He also thinks the final version would drop the concept's carbon fiber in favor of more aluminum components. The other key is getting the interior just right, and Warming's plan is to keep things ...

At the very least, Starship’s stainless steel design is less of a concern than traditional aluminum rockets. When they break up in the atmosphere on re-entry, they generate aluminum oxides ...

Until recently, the TVC mounts were 3D printed, but [Joe] upgraded it to machined aluminum to eliminate as much flex and play as possible. Since solid-fuel rockets can’t technically be throttled ...