SpaceX lost contact with the Starship upper stage, known as Ship. It's currently unknown what caused the problem, but one thing is certain: Ship went out with a bang. The 171-foot-tall (52 meters) spacecraft exploded over the Atlantic Ocean near the Turks ...

Dramatic footage showing streaks of light zipping across the sky surfaced online following Elon Musk's Starship explosion over the Atlantic Ocean.

A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded shortly after liftoff on a test flight Thursday. Jan. 16, 2025. (Greg Munch/TMX)

James Temple was "in the right place at the right time" to take these dramatic images of SpaceX's Starship's seventh flight test disintegrating above the Atlantic Ocean

The incident in which a SpaceX rocket broke up after launch demonstrates the challenges the FAA will face as the number of commercial space flights increases.

SpaceX conducted the seventh flight test of its Starship launch vehicle on Thursday. The company called it “the most capable” Starship yet—and the only fully reusable one, according to ABC.

Live updates from Tuesday morning’s SpaceX Starlink 13-1 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Residents across Southern California were dazzled by a SpaceX launch that briefly illuminated the skyline. Miss it? Check out our video.

Kranz was not claiming that failure was never an option; he was insisting that his team must not fail when it mattered most. The development of any advanced, highly complex technology necessarily involves plenty of failure along the way.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch its latest round of Starlink satellites into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, lifting off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Live updates from Monday morning’s SpaceX Starlink 12-4 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Following stage separation, the Falcon 9 rocket booster settled for a landing on the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean.