Elon Musk seems to mess up nearly everything his hands touch. So, it wasn't a surprise to learn scientists have glommed onto ...

2025 was a very busy year for spaceflight, for better and for worse. We saw quite a few milestones notched in the final frontier this year, including the first-ever fully successful private moon ...

On January 16, SpaceX conceded that the latest prototype of its enormous Starship spacecraft had “experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn” — a tongue-in-cheek admission that ...

Moments after liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast early Thursday morning, a shower of sparks emerged in the exhaust plume of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. Seconds later, the rocket twisted on ...