This was Starship’s eighth flight test and follows a failed flight in January. The spacecraft is essential to Elon Musk’s ...

The landing legs stuck up in the air and the melted rocket body hung off the side of the drone ship — making the first-stage booster nearly unrecognizable to casual observers. The only tell-tale ...

while a visualization of the rocket's engines showed multiple engines shut down. Then the company said it had lost contact with the ship, and announcers immediately drew a connection to the ...

The rocket's upper stage — known as Starship, or simply "Ship" — was supposed to deploy 10 dummy satellites into a suborbital trajectory and then splash down in the Indian Ocean about an hour ...

But after the first-stage booster successfully landed atop a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a fire in the aft end of the rocket damaged one of the landing legs — and the booster tipped ...