While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

Akash Bobba, a 22-year-old Indian-origin engineer, has been chosen to be part of Elon Musk 's Department of Government ...

SpaceX plans to launch the seventh full-scale test flight of its massive Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket Thursday ...

SpaceX is also flying rudimentary catch fittings on Starship to test their thermal performance on reentry. The ship will fly a more demanding trajectory during descent to probe the structural limits ...

“Folks, this is a day for the engineering history books,” added engineering manager Kate Tice from SpaceX headquarters ... stainless steel spacecraft on top continued around the world once ...

SpaceX's test-to-failure development approach has in the past included spectacular failures as the company pushes Starship prototypes to their engineering limits. Thursday's test failure ...