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On January 17, 1997, Dr. Jay Bernard of the Aerospace Company called his insurance adjuster. Skeptical, the agent could not believe what the doctor was telling him: his car had been hit by a rocket.

SpaceX's 403-foot Starship rocket was set to launch on Sunday for its 10th test flight, but tech issues got in the way.

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A Philippine senior official said China's rocket launch caused alarm and concern in the country over "loud explosions." ...

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SpaceX wants to launch nearly 100 rockets into space off Vandenberg Space Force Base, despite complaints and objects from local officials of rattling sonic booms and unknown impacts to the state's ...

SpaceX's Starship soared to new heights for 2025 in its latest flight test from Starbase, Texas. When will the world’s ...

Starship's first three test flights of the year, from January through May, all ended with the spacecraft exploding in dramatic fashion while traveling through the air. Those setbacks were followed in ...

SpaceX has unveiled a radical redesign of its Starship rocket after several failed flight attempts of the Mars-bound rocket. Elon Musk’s space company announced on Wednesday that it will remove one of ...

China unveiled its latest military hardware in a procession in Beijing to mark 80 years since the end of World War II, but a ...