Elon Musk’s SpaceX faced a major setback on March 6, 2025, when its latest Starship test flight ended in a midair explosion over the Caribbean Sea. The 400-foot rocket initially launched ...

JAXA said that an explosion occurred during a combustion test of the second-stage engine of the Epsilon S rocket, which is an improved model of the small solid-fuel Epsilon rocket, at the facility ...

SpaceX’s rocket exploded on January 16 at an altitude of 90 miles, causing red-hot fragments of metal to fall from the sky across the Caribbian. The rocket weighed 85 tons and its fall back ...

When one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets exploded on a launch pad just before a test on September 1, the spaceflight community collectively gasped. Private spaceflight's golden child had failed again ...

The ASU student rocketry group Daedalus Astronautics is still not permitted to test its new rocket fuel developments on campus after one of its experiments exploded during testing more than a year ago ...

Last-minute problems forced a launch delay Monday for SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship, attempting a comeback following an explosion on the last test flight. The countdown got down to the 40-second ...