The maiden test of LandSpace's next-generation Zhuque-3 rocket ended in failure on Wednesday, dashing the Chinese firm's ...

A private Chinese space firm successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to orbit but failed in its historic attempt to re-land the rocket booster Wednesday – the first such trial by a Chinese firm as the ...

When a SpaceX Starship rocket went up in a fiery explosion in June 2025, it amplified criticism regarding the company's recent string of test failures. This was the fourth straight failure of the Elon ...

China launched a reusable carrier rocket on Wednesday from northwest China. The second stage of this rocket managed to enter ...

Recently, two events — the second attempt by Intuitive Machines to land on the moon and the eighth test of the SpaceX Starship — proved an old adage: Rocket science is really hard. Both of these ...

Firefly Aerospace launched its two-stage Alpha rocket from California early Tuesday, but something went wrong about two-and-a-half minutes into the flight, rendering the rocket unable to deploy an ...

SpaceX's Starship rocket exploded during a test at its Texas Starbase campus. The explosion is the fourth failure for SpaceX's Starship rockets this year. SpaceX uses failures to improve — but it'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 ...