The 400-foot (122-meter) tall Starship rocket system, the core of Musk's goal of sending humans to Mars, lifted off from SpaceX's Starbase, Texas, launch site, flying beyond the point of two previous explosive attempts earlier this year that sent debris streaking over Caribbean islands and forced dozens of airliners to divert course.

SpaceX’s latest Starship test flight marked progress beyond past failures but ended in another uncontrolled descent and mission shortfall

A new program at Texas A&M University will charge doctors with discovering more about the effects of long-duration space flight.

As SpaceX readies Starship’s next test, questions over refueling and mass limits threaten its lunar and Martian goals.

Starship, the futuristic SpaceX rocket vehicle on whichElon Musk's ambitions for multiplanetary travel are riding, stood poised for a ninth uncrewed test launch on Tuesday, aiming for a clean flight after the last two attempts ended in explosive failure.

On Tuesday afternoon, just a few hours before a launch attempt of the ninth flight test of SpaceX's Starship vehicle, Elon Musk spoke with Ars Technica Senior Space Editor Eric Berger to talk about where his space company goes from here.

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket for the ninth time on Tuesday evening from its Starbase site in Texas, aiming to complete a full test flight. The 403-foot rocket, designed for future moon and Mars missions,

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Elon Musk’s space company plans to test the huge experimental vehicle on Tuesday, in its first flight after two explosions this year.