Earth’s magnetic bubble, the invisible shield that normally deflects charged particles from the Sun, briefly shrank to a ...

TOPSHOT - The SpaceX Starship lifts off from Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on October 13, 2024, for the Starship Flight 5 test. SpaceX successfully "caught" the first-stage booster of its Starship ...

SpaceX’s luck appears to be turning, as the company notched a second straight successful test flight of the Starship launch system — the most powerful rocket ever constructed — on Monday evening. The ...

When a SpaceX Starship rocket went up in a fiery explosion in June 2025, it amplified criticism regarding the company's recent string of test failures. This was the fourth straight failure of the Elon ...

• SpaceX aimed to launch a 10th test flight of a Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket booster tonight — but bad weather got in the way. • This marks the second launch attempt for the mission ...

SpaceX's Starship megarocket will fly again less than two weeks from now, if all goes according to plan. SpaceX announced on Monday (Sept. 29) that it's targeting Oct. 13 for Starship Flight 11, which ...

After spectacular back-to-back upper stage failures in January and March, SpaceX launched another Super Heavy-Starship rocket Tuesday on the program's ninth test flight, but ran into fresh problems ...

Rockets can leave a mark on the atmosphere well after they've left, and SpaceX may have learned that first-hand. Researchers have determined that a Falcon 9 launch in August 2017 (the Formosat-5 ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX is aiming to launch astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday after scrubbing its launch on Thursday. The window for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission from Kennedy ...

This browser does not support the Video element. BOCA CHICA, Texas - For SpaceX, the third time was the charm. Starship and its Super Heavy booster rocket – the most powerful ever flown – blasted off ...

Certainly, but there needs to be some happy medium; if it takes six months or more of space travel to hit the failure point in real life, "flying it" to see if it works will get prohibitively ...

The RAMBHA-LP instrument offers the first ground truth of the Moon’s near-surface plasma at southern high latitudes.