Elon Musk has hailed today's historic launch of his $3billion Starship rocket as "exciting" - despite it blowing up shortly after takeoff. The world's biggest and most powerful rocket ever built took ...

Elon Musk's $3billion Starship designed to take humans to Mars has blown up on its first test launch shortly after takeoff. The massive rocket, which has 33 main engines took off at 9.28am local time ...

A rocket carrying the cremated remains of a late Nasa astronaut exploded seconds after launch over the New Mexico desert. The small suborbital rocket by Colorado-based company UP Aerospace was ...

As an institution, the Pentagon has come to be known for many things over the years — its transparency, its generosity, its cunning. Consistency is not one of them. But in the wake of SpaceX CEO Elon ...

NASA's Space Shuttle successfully reached orbit during its first attempt in April 1981. The Saturn V rocket that launched the first humans to the Moon also didn't explode during liftoff in July 1969.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Elon Musk proudly proclaimed 'Starship will take humanity to Mars' after the massive rocket hit a major milestone of reaching orbit during a Thursday flight test. While venturing into space was part ...

A white shell-shaped cloud - likely the point of explosion - was also snapped AN American astronaut has captured the eerie sight of Elon Musk’s Starship exploding over Earth after SpaceX’s latest ...

Space is hard, as people in the business like to say, and SpaceX delivered a dramatic demonstration of that when its massive Starship rocket launched and then began tumbling out of control before ...