SpaceX lost contact with the Starship upper stage, known as Ship. It's currently unknown what caused the problem, but one thing is certain: Ship went out with a bang. The 171-foot-tall (52 meters) spacecraft exploded over the Atlantic Ocean near the Turks ...

Dramatic footage showing streaks of light zipping across the sky surfaced online following Elon Musk's Starship explosion over the Atlantic Ocean.

A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded shortly after liftoff on a test flight Thursday. Jan. 16, 2025. (Greg Munch/TMX)

Live updates from Monday afternoon’s SpaceX Starlink 12-7 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

The incident in which a SpaceX rocket broke up after launch demonstrates the challenges the FAA will face as the number of commercial space flights increases.

SpaceX conducted the seventh flight test of its Starship launch vehicle on Thursday. The company called it “the most capable” Starship yet—and the only fully reusable one, according to ABC.

The Falcon 9 launched 21 Starlink satellites — including 13 with direct-to-cell communications capabilities — from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

SpaceX is preparing to send its next round of Starlink satellites into lower Earth orbit with a launch scheduled for Monday afternoon at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, officials said.

SpaceX knows how to put on a show ... The 171-foot-tall (52 meters) spacecraft exploded over the Atlantic Ocean near the Turks and Caicos islands around 8.5 minutes after launch, creating a ...

The Falcon 9’s first stage returned to Earth around eight minutes after liftoff, landing in the Atlantic Ocean aboard the SpaceX drone ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’

James Temple was "in the right place at the right time" to take these dramatic images of SpaceX's Starship's seventh flight test disintegrating above the Atlantic Ocean