SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket has stumbled on the road to commercial use. On Thursday, it unexpectedly dropped out of communications and exploded as it screamed toward space for its seventh flight ...

The aerospace company is bringing its booster back for a rare land recovery in Central Florida on Tuesday evening – with defeaning sonic booms set to rock multiple counties ...

In preparation for its eighth Starship launch, SpaceX is finishing up preflight shakedowns for the megarocket's first stage, or Super Heavy booster, and second stage, also known simply as "Ship." ...

Activity at SpaceX’s Starbase site in Boca Chica, Texas, suggests that the spaceflight company is moving rapidly toward the eighth test of its mighty Starship rocket, which comprises the first ...

In December, SpaceX submitted a petition to turn the coastal Texas village, where the Starship factory and space port operate, into an incorporated city. Like the rocket complex, it would be named ...

That mission featured a dramatic catch of Starship's Super Heavy first stage by the "chopstick" arms of its launch tower at Starbase, in South Texas. It was the second time SpaceX had pulled off ...

The vessel we currently refer to as "Starship" used to be known as the BFR (Big Falcon Rocket) and ITS (Interplanetary Transport System). Along with the name change, SpaceX clarified its vision ...

SpaceX is planning its next Starship test flight, weeks after the last one involved an explosion that rained rocket parts across the Caribbean and disrupted air traffic. The Elon Musk-led company ...

A nuclear thermal rocket could potentially achieve double or triple the Delta-V of a SpaceX Starship with just the full orbital refueling. But to move large payloads of 100-200 tons, then the ...

But SpaceX's Starship rocket will be bigger, cheaper, and more reusable than either Falcon 9 or New Glenn. Don't worry about Elon Musk. SpaceX is going to do just fine. Once a company dabbling ...