A rocket touted as Japan’s first from the private sector to go into orbit exploded shortly after takeoff on Wednesday, Mar.

On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff. Pilot Michael Smith's final words ...

SpaceX's flagship rockets keep blowing up. On Wednesday night, one of the Elon Musk-run space technology company's latest rockets erupted into an inferno on the launchpad. The explosion, which ...

The blast shot a fireball and debris into the during testing for the 400-foot rocket system in Brownsville on Texas' southwest Gulf Coast.

Dozens of startups working on data centers, mining and pharmaceuticals are hanging on Elon Musk's long-stalled megarocket.

Frightening footage from Monday shows an Iranian rocket exploding on an Israeli street in an attack that left one dead and another wounded. The rocket — part of a cluster warhead that sprays bombs ...

Part of testing is pushing components way past their limits, so it's entirely possible that the team predicted a fiery end.