On Thursday evening Blue Origin attempted to test fire its massive New Glenn rocket at its Florida launch site, but something ...

A Blue Origin rocket exploded during a static fire test at Cape Canaveral. Here's what a static fire test is.

A Blue Origin rocket exploded on the launch tower in a fiery blast during a test of its engines on Thursday night, the company said.

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded during a hot-fire test at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on May 28, 2026, producing a large fireball during a ground test of the launch vehicle’s engines.

SpaceX conducted a static fire test of a single Starship 26 engine. The test demonstrated "flight-like startup for a Starship ...

Mega Engine's Chi engine has already completed a long-duration hot fire. The startup was founded as recently as 2024.

COLORADO SPRINGS—NASA is continuing to speed up the rate of X-59 flight tests as the Quesst low-boom supersonic demonstrator program builds up to its first Mach 1 faster-than-sound milestone flight.

SpaceX's Starship megarocket may indeed get off the ground next week. The company is apparently targeting May 15 for the test flight, which will be the 12th for Starship overall but the first for the ...

NASA engineers recently tested a next-generation electric propulsion system that could one day power a crewed mission to Mars. NASA fired up a prototype of its electromagnetic thruster inside a vacuum ...

NASA wants to make supersonic travel quieter. On Thursday the agency released new footage of its X-59 jet, a still-in-development plane that is designed to break the sound barrier over land—but with a ...

Space startup Astrobotic put its rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) to the test for the first time, demonstrating a potentially groundbreaking technology that generates thrust by supersonic ...

Following the successful return of Orion, attention for the Artemis program has now shifted to SpaceX and Blue Origin to prepare a crewed lander in time for Artemis III. For SpaceX, this means getting ...