Collateral Damage When a multi-ton spacecraft blows up mid-air, it turns out that you can't just brush aside its ...

SpaceX's Starship might have released harmful air pollutants into the atmosphere, as well as shards of hot metal.

The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...

Scientists are not sure how much metallic dust remained in the atmosphere after the most recent SpaceX rocket 'disassembly.' ...

Rob Dahm is refining the unique 15.7-liter Y12 rotary engine, originally designed by Tyson Garvin as a twelve-rotor ...

He also thinks the final version would drop the concept's carbon fiber in favor of more aluminum components. The other key is getting the interior just right, and Warming's plan is to keep things ...

At the very least, Starship’s stainless steel design is less of a concern than traditional aluminum rockets. When they break up in the atmosphere on re-entry, they generate aluminum oxides ...

The rapid unscheduled disassembly (aka explosion) of SpaceX's Starship megarocket that rained scorching fragments of metal across the Caribbean in mid-January may have released significant amounts ...