The first stage of Firefly Aerospace's 96-foot-tall Alpha rocket exploded while the spacecraft was vertical on a test stand in Briggs, Texas. Firefly made a name for itself in 2025 when its Blue Ghost ...

NEW YORK — SpaceX’s latest attempt to land a rocket upright on a platform in the Pacific Ocean failed in a spectacular fashion on Sunday. The unmanned mission, powered by a SpaceX rocket, accomplished ...

When a SpaceX Starship rocket went up in a fiery explosion in June 2025, it amplified criticism regarding the company's recent string of test failures. This was the fourth straight failure of the Elon ...

An exploding rocket rattled a small community north of Austin on Monday. Firefly Aerospace, which successfully landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the moon in March, was testing its Alpha rocket in ...

Firefly Aerospace Inc. suffered another setback Monday when a rocket it was preparing for launch exploded in a massive fireball during ground testing at its facility north of Austin. Firefly stock ...

Starship's first three test flights of the year, from January through May, all ended with the spacecraft exploding in dramatic fashion while traveling through the air. Those setbacks were followed in ...