This was the ninth test flight for the rocket, and the third catastrophic failure in a row, just this year. Is this what we should expect from the very ship some are counting on to take humans further ...

SpaceX’s Starship Flight 9 ended in failure — and it is not the company’s only one. Since its first launch in April 2023, SpaceX has seen a mix of failed and successful launches. While not every ...

As Elon Musk's SpaceX works toward a May 19 debut of its third-generation Starship, here's a look back at all the previous test flights to date.

SpaceX’s latest test of its upgraded Starship ended in a fireball on the pad, a stark reminder that rapid iteration in rocketry still carries very public risks. The ground test, intended as a routine ...

A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded on a test stand in Texas, adding to a series of setbacks to Elon Musk’s space ambitions that include trips to Mars. The huge blast enveloped the craft as it stood ...

Elon Musk said SpaceX will test launch a Starship rocket every few weeks. CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images The test featured the first reuse of SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster, the powerful first ...

It was another explosive SpaceX Starship launch, this time over the Indian Ocean.“Starship is not perfected. It’s far from being perfected,” said Ken Kremer, a research chemist and the founder of ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. On a bright spring morning in 2023, SpaceX’s first fully assembled Starship ...

SpaceX's ongoing mission to prepare Starship spacecraft for trips to the moon and, eventually, Mars suffered a setback when a spacecraft exploded this week in South Texas. The explosion happened ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. This was the ninth test flight for the rocket, and ...

What goes up must come down, and earlier this week yet another of SpaceX's Starships, the biggest and most powerful type of rocket ever built, came back down to Earth in spectacular fashion. In the ...