Mr. Irving is an investigative journalist who has covered aviation and aerospace for more than 30 years.

When young, aspiring astronauts dream about shooting off into space in a rocket ship, their minds rarely wander to worst case ...

The Houston Astros will wear their new City Connect uniforms for the first time on March 31 against the San Francisco Giants.

NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned to Earth from a weeklong mission at the International Space Station that ...

There have been so many iconic shows and movies set in various corners of the galaxy, and it stands to reason that a suitable ...

Elon Musk revealed that SpaceX plans to send its Starship rocket to Mars at the end of 2026, with the mission also carrying ...

But after the first-stage booster successfully landed atop a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a fire in the aft end of the rocket damaged one of the landing legs — and the booster tipped ...

SpaceX had announced just days earlier that Starship would launch from Kennedy Space Center by the end of the year, however, ...

"Can confirm we did lose contact with the ship. Unfortunately ... Test - Starship -- the world's largest and most powerful rocket -- lifted off from SpaceX's Starbase facility in Boca Chica ...

It was not immediately clear whether the explosion was caused by SpaceX’s automated flight termination system, which triggers when something on the rocket goes wrong. The ship showed signs of ...