The Latest Breaking News from SpaceX

The most powerful rocket ever built met an eventful end

SpaceX launched its gigantic Starship rocket toward space for the first time ever today (April 20), a milestone that could presage humanity's expansion out into the solar system.

SpaceX hopes Starship will one day fly people and cargo to deep space destinations like the Moon and even Mars.

On its first test flight Thursday morning, SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket cleared the launch pad, soared into the south Texas sky, but ultimately exploded into a trail of smoke.

SpaceX's Starship launched on the first of many test flights it will undergo before it is ready to ferry astronauts to the moon.

SpaceX’s giant new rocket blasted off on its first test flight Thursday but exploded minutes after rising from the launch pad and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.

Historic launch ends in an explosion high in the atmosphere as booster rocket fails to separate

SpaceX said Starship experienced a 'rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation' just four minutes into the massive rockets first test flight. Elon Musk previously warned there was a '50 per cent chance of reaching orbit'

The enormous Starship rocket, set for launch today, can carry ten times the payload of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets.