SpaceX launched its huge Starship rocket on the program's eighth test flight Thursday, but a malfunction of some sort triggered multiple upper stage engine shutdowns and the vehicle failed to ...

Starship had been expected to launch again Monday. A previous launch ended in an explosion over the Caribbean, and sent commercial airlines scattering to avoid falling rocket debris.

Seven minutes later, Starship's huge first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, returned to Starbase for a dramatic catch by the launch tower's "chopstick" arms. It was the third time that SpaceX has ...

SpaceX is scheduled to launch its eighth test flight of the massive Starship rocket on Monday, which will include another attempt to catch its Super Heavy booster at the launchpad with mechanical ...

Huot said the company opted to wait to stack the rocket system in an effort to continue chasing the goal of making Starship as nimble as possible. “We really want to get to a point where we can ...

Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test ...

SpaceX has confirmed that it’s targeting Thursday, March 6, for the eighth test of the Starship, the most powerful rocket ever to fly. Read on for details on how to watch a livestream of the ...

SpaceX's eighth flight test of its Starship spacecraft ended with a "rapid unscheduled disassembly," the company said. Contact with the ship was lost about nine minutes after the launch.

In that test, Starship’s mammoth booster, or the bottom of the rocket, successfully returned to the launchpad, but the upper-stage spacecraft disintegrated over the Caribbean, with some debris ...

SpaceX’s Starship has exploded shortly after takeoff in the second launch failure this year for Elon Musk’s interplanetary exploration programme. But Musk’s rocket company was able to ...

SpaceX postponed its eighth test of the hulking Starship rocket on Monday, following a flight controller hold placed due to a Super Heavy booster issue that wasn’t resolved in time for launch.