Elon Musk's space company SpaceX suffered a major setback on Friday morning when a next-generation Starship booster prototype exploded.

The first test flight of Landspace's Zhuque-3 rocket ended in a fiery explosion after successfully reaching orbit.

The major competitor in the field is SpaceX, which successfully landed its reusable rocket, Falcon 9, in 2015, after multiple ...

Without reusable rockets, China has turned to a wide variety of expendable boosters this year to launch less than half as ...

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 ...

At around 9 AM on Thursday morning, SpaceX, Elon Musk’s moonshot space transportation company, conducted a test-firing of its unmanned Falcon 9 rocket, which was meant to launch from the Cape ...

An experimental SpaceX rocket exploded at the end of a high-altitude test flight Tuesday, but heavy fog at the site left even SpaceX at least publicly uncertain about exactly what caused the explosion ...

On Sept. 26, 1983, a Russian Soyuz rocket exploded on the launchpad. Two cosmonauts were inside the spacecraft, and they barely made it out alive. About 90 seconds before the rocket was supposed to ...