What happens now? The second stage of the rocket is now gliding through orbit, carrying the Blue Ring Pathfinder payload. In a short while, the rocket's upper stage will orient itself down towards ...

Here's what to know about the latest Starship launch, as well as what's ahead for SpaceX and its world's largest rocket. For Thursday's flight test, SpaceX debuted a new and upgraded model of its ...

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, but the spacecraft was destroyed ...

The more than 400-foot rocket, powered by 33 Raptor engines, appeared to lift off successfully at 4:37 p.m. CT from SpaceX's launchpad at its Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas. But minutes ...

SpaceX has been ordered to pause launches of its Starship rocket while the company and the Federal Aviation Administration probe the cause of an explosion shortly after lift-off in Texas on Thursday.

The Super Heavy booster successfully landed using the "chopsticks" mechanism before the unmanned rocket was apparently destroyed. SpaceX aims to utilize Starship for lunar missions with NASA and ...

The Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin sent its massive new rocket into space Thursday — and carried a prototype satellite into orbit thousands of miles above the Earth’s surface. The seven-engine ...

The New Glenn rocket, towering at approximately 320 feet, is designed to compete directly with SpaceX's Falcon 9 by demonstrating reusability. Listen to Story It carried the Blue Ring Pathfinder ...

Blue Origin, the rocket company Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos founded, notched one of the most substantial successes in its history on Thursday: sending a rocket to orbit. The debut flight of New ...

$1,000. ONE. LIFT OFF. WELL, AFTER SEVERAL DELAYS, BLUE ORIGIN’S NEW GLENN ROCKET SUCCESSFULLY BLASTED OFF FROM OUR SPACE COAST EARLY THIS MORNING. THIS WAS THE FIRST TEST FLIGHT OF THE BRAND ...

Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its massive New Glenn rocket for the first time early Thursday, a livestream of the blastoff showed. The rocket ...