Debris from an apparent explosion of the eighth SpaceX Starship test flight was seen lighting up the skies above the Bahamas Thursday night. Video shows the remains of the 400-foot spacecraft from ...

While on a flight back from spring break Thursday night, a Wisconsin college student captured a close-up view of falling debris from a failed SpaceX Starship rocket launch. University of Wisconsin ...

SpaceX's Starship spacecraft exploded Thursday during a flight test, raining fiery debris across the Florida sky. It was the second explosion this year for the massive, 400-foot spacecraft.

No astronauts were aboard the spacecraft. SpaceX discontinued its video feed of the launch without providing a location for the craft or where debris might land. In a post on X, SpaceX said the ...

Was it a meteor shower over South Florida? A plane on fire? Something extraterrestrial? People in South Florida looked to the sky Thursday night and wondered what the fiery, falling streaks were.

The upper portion of SpaceX's massive Starship spacecraft exploded once again minutes into its Thursday flight test, creating a cascade of fiery debris visible from Florida to the Caribbean.

Space debris travels at high speeds, about 17,500 mph. A 1-centimeter object traveling at that speed has an impact energy equivalent to that of a small explosive such as a hand grenade.

Space junk is a "persistent hazard," scientists say. Climate change could threaten the future use of satellites and significantly reduce the number of spacecraft that can safety orbit Earth ...