SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded just minutes into its seventh test flight, an unexpected setback after the Elon Musk-led company had made steady progress advancing the vehicle’s capabilities.

SpaceX on Thursday said that its Starship rocket broke up mid-flight spreading debris all around. The malfunction took place when the tests were being conducted to see the mega-rocket’s capabilities.

The FAA has grounded SpaceX's Starship pending an investigation into why the rocket's upper stage dramatically disintegrated in its latest flight. In this screen grab ...

Teams will continue to review data from today’s flight test to better ... payload into space using a Starship rocket, albeit a fake one. 10 “Starlink simulators”, aimed at mimicking the ...

This story was updated to add a video. A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up during a test flight of the megarocket's capabilities Thursday. Two extended "chopsticks" successfully caught the Super ...

“It’s a flight test. It’s an experimental vehicle.” The last data received from the spacecraft indicated an altitude of 90 miles (146 kilometres) and a velocity of 13,245 mph (21,317 kph).

Debris streaks across the skies after SpaceX’s Starship ... flight on Thursday, temporarily disrupting air travel as pieces of it streaked across the sky. SpaceX launched its Starship rocket ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket achieves orbit in successful maiden launch, carrying test satellite, but misses bonus landing goal.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX lost its 400-foot-tall Starship in space where it was destroyed after launching the rocket from Texas Thursday in its seventh test flight. The engines of the new and improved ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, but the spacecraft was destroyed following a thrilling booster catch back at the pad. Elon Musk’s company said Starship ...

and today’s flight will help us improve Starship’s reliability." It was the seventh test flight for the powerful rocket. The spacecraft was supposed to soar across the Gulf of Mexico from ...

New Glenn’s flight was supposed to take off on Monday, but ice buildup in the rocket’s plumbing delayed the launch. The rocket’s debut was supposed to help send two NASA spacecraft to Mars ...