SpaceX is also flying rudimentary catch fittings on Starship to test their thermal performance on reentry. The ship will fly a more demanding trajectory during descent to probe the structural limits ...

The seventh test flight of SpaceX's Starship has successfully taken off from Boca Chica, Texas. Newsweek's live blog is ...

SpaceX sent up its first test flight of the year for its Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Texas catching the booster for ...

NASA has agreed to pay SpaceX $4.5 billion across ... designed to test how satellites might deploy from this “new generation” of the spaceship. Initially scheduled to launch on Wednesday ...

NASA unveiled the design for America’s first new spaceship in a generation Tuesday, a reusable, wedge-shaped craft called VentureStar that would take off and land almost as easily as an airplane and ...

NASA has agreed to pay SpaceX $4.5 billion across two contracts to develop Starship ... from space — as well as carry out an experimental maneuver designed to test how satellites might deploy from ...

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 plans to launch the seventh full-scale test flight of its massive Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket Thursday ...

Researchers at NASA Langley are developing a next-gen system ... However, a nuclear reactor needs the generation of immense heat generated for long-distance space travel. Traditional designs ...