The rocket system is the centrepiece of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s vision to ferry humans to Mars and expand his firm’s global dominance.

The ninth uncrewed Starship test flight lifted off just after 7:30 Central, and though the launch was successful, the mission encountered problems some 30 minutes into the flight.

The Starship blasted off from SpaceX's launch site, Starbase, Texas, where residents voted this month to organize as an official city.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship experienced another dramatic failure on Tuesday evening when its latest test launch ended in an ...

SpaceX's latest Starship test faced challenges as it spun out of control during liftoff, marking another hurdle in from Texas ...

SpaceX’s Starship super-rocket got off to a great start today for its ninth flight test, but the second stage ran into a host of issues and made an uncontrolled re-entry. The 400-foot-tall rocket’s ...

The SpaceX Starship rocket successfully reached the separation stage after launching from Texas on Tuesday, but the booster broke apart on descent and the upper-stage ship went into a spin before ...

While SpaceX has hoped to launch Starship from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A by the end of the year, test flights from Texas make slow progress.

The debris fell into the Indian Ocean away from inhabited areas. SpaceX was unable to conduct several tests it had planned ...

Elon Musk’s Starship rocket had been cruising for almost half an hour when it became clear something was wrong.

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket again from Texas after two failed missions. While the rocket flew farther, a door malfunction scrapped the satellite release test.

Elon Musk certainly won't be a happy man after a SpaceX Starship spiralled out of control and exploded in a major malfunction ...