The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Elon Musk's exploding Starship could have caused a 'potential extreme safety risk', adding FAA personnel were not informed ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

The first stage of Firefly Aerospace's 96-foot-tall Alpha rocket exploded while the spacecraft was vertical on a test stand in Briggs, Texas. Firefly made a name for itself in 2025 when its Blue Ghost ...

Firefly Aerospace shares fell sharply after one of the company’s rockets exploded during testing, raising new concerns about the challenges facing the newly public space technology provider. The stock ...

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 ...

LandSpace, a private Beijing-based space firm, launched its Zhuque-3 rocket into orbit this morning, but failed in its historic attempt to reland the rocket booster. While it’s the first trial of its ...

Two new stars, or nova eruptions, have been resolved in unprecedented detail by six optical telescopes operating in unison as an interferometer. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

A midair explosion of SpaceX’s (SPACE) Starship rocket in January created a serious and largely undisclosed threat to commercial aircraft flying over the Caribbean, forcing multiple pilots to make ...

Firefly Aerospace Inc. suffered another setback Monday when a rocket it was preparing for launch exploded in a massive fireball during ground testing at its facility north of Austin. Firefly stock ...

A violent rocket explosion in Texas recently sent a cascade of fire and plumes of billowing smoke into the air that was captured on video. Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket blew up in dramatic fashion ...