While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

SpaceX has turned heads and tested boundaries with each test flight of Starship, the most powerful ... test how satellites might deploy from this “new generation” of the spaceship.

The Super Heavy-Starship is the most powerful rocket ever built, generating a staggering 16 million pounds of thrust at liftoff using 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines. The New Glenn rocket ...

SpaceX aims to utilize Starship for lunar missions with NASA and eventually for crewed missions to Mars. A new version of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft was apparently destroyed during its first ...

While the Starship is lost, the mission's first-stage booster successfully returned to the launch tower, where it was caught ...

Despite the controversy, the company is carrying on with business as usual; on Wednesday, SpaceX is expected to launch a new generation Starship from South Texas where it will later splash down ...

A SpaceX Super Heavy-Starship rocket stands poised for launch on the program's seventh test flight at the company's Boca Chica, Texas, manufacturing and flight facility. / Credit: SpaceX The New ...