CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - An explosion destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk's SpaceX during routine test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday, shaking buildings miles away and ...

ATLANTIC, Va. -- Crews searched for scorched wreckage along the Virginia coast Wednesday in hopes of figuring out why an unmanned commercial rocket exploded in a blow to NASA's strategy of using ...

South Korean startup Innospace says it knows what went wrong on its first-ever orbital launch attempt. Innospace sent its Hanbit-Nano rocket skyward for the first time ever on Dec. 22, from the ...

Japan's bid to become a private spacefaring nation hit a painful snag once again. Space One's KAIROS No. 3 rocket self-destructed just 69 seconds after liftoff on March 5, 2026, failing to achieve the ...

Kairos failed on Wednesday (March 4), as it did on its first two launches. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The third time was not ...

NASA's Antares rocket exploded on launch this evening from the Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia just before 6:30 p.m. The rocket held a cargo craft containing more than 5,000 pounds of ...

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined kerosene was favored for its easy handling and non-toxicity, hydrazine for its ...