SpaceX is lining up its next Starship test in the coming weeks as it eyes a mid-2027 Starlink upgrade and weighs xAI-era ambitions.

SpaceX’s experimental test of metallic heat shield tiles for the Starship vehicle ended in failure, with the tiles degrading rapidly under extreme thermal stress. The setback exposes a significant ...

SpaceX's Starship, the world's largest rocket, has inspired several Chinese companies to develop similar spacecraft designs. NASA plans to use Starship for its Artemis program to land astronauts on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elon Musk has vowed that SpaceX's gigantic Starship rocket is on the cusp of its 2026 debut. Starship, which stands more than 400 ...

However, instead of a Block 2 booster on Pad 1, this is Booster 19, a Block 3 booster, mounted on SpaceX’s newest launch pad, Pad 2. This launch pad has been under construction for the past 22 months ...

MIT researchers have outlined how SpaceX’s Starship rocket, refueled in Earth orbit, could cut the travel time for NASA’s planned Uranus mission roughly in half. The baseline design for the Uranus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SpaceX's ambitious concept for its Starship spacecraft intended to one day travel all the way to Mars has apparently inspired no ...

SpaceX’s Starship ascends on the Flight 11 launch Oct. 13. Credit: SpaceX ORLANDO, Fla. — The first Starship test flight of 2026 is scheduled for as soon as early March as SpaceX enters a critical ...

The delayed first test of SpaceX’s upgraded Starship rocket is now slated for mid-March, according to a post from CEO Elon Musk on his social media site X. This third version of Starship, or V3, is ...

SpaceX's ambitious concept for its Starship spacecraft intended to one day travel all the way to Mars has apparently inspired no shortage of copy cats. The mammoth rocket that launches in Texas, ...

"SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the moon," Musk said in a post on social media site X. Musk has often spoken about his vision of colonizing other worlds in our ...