An exploding rocket rattled a small community north of Austin on Monday. Firefly Aerospace, which successfully landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the moon in March, was testing its Alpha rocket in ...

The company said the Starship "experienced a major anomaly" at about 11 p.m. while on the test stand preparing for the tenth flight test at Starbase, SpaceX's launch site at the southern tip of Texas.

Astrophysicist reacts to SpaceX rocket exploding during testing in Texas Astrophysicist Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi on SpaceX's Starship 36 exploding during a routine static fire test just after 11 p.m. local ...

Remember that time, almost nine years ago, when a SpaceX rocket just blew up on the launchpad in Florida? It was a big deal. This was really a pre-launch test, not a launch itself. The rocket, a ...