It's been several weeks since the SpaceX Mars rocket prototype has been waiting to take off in what will be its first orbital test flight at the company's Starbase facility, near the South Texas town ...

SpaceX has notched up another milestone in the development of Starship, fixing its Raptor Vacuum engine to the spacecraft and test-firing it for the first time. This marks another important step in ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. SpaceX has posted a dramatic video of the first firing of its Raptor ...

Among the many pesky issues that can confound do-it-yourself mechanics, one of the most simple yet elusive that impacts overall drivability is the common vacuum leak. This is especially true if you're ...

The Starship, SpaceX’s under-development rocket, is turning up the power. The test fire marks another step forward in CEO Elon Musk’s overall mission to establish a city of 1 million people on Mars by ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Obligatory, I'm not a rocket scientist/engineer. Hell, I'm not even a science graduate. My question is how exactly the test, tests, what is supposed to happen in vaccum, when it is done in atmosphere?

When NASA astronauts return to the surface of the moon in the Artemis III mission, the plan is to use a modified SpaceX Starship as their lunar lander. NASA announced last week that SpaceX has now ...

Boom! SpaceX puts its upcoming Starship engine through its paces in a video shared Friday, which shows the Raptor engine completing a full-duration test fire at the firm's rocket development ...