A peer-reviewed study modeling Mars transit times for chemical propulsion rockets found that even optimized Starship-class trajectories would still require roughly three months to reach the Red Planet ...

The coming decades of space exploration hinge on a single, stubborn number: the 225 million kilometres between Earth and Mars. Chemical rockets, the workhorses of every space programme to date, take ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has green-lit three new flight paths for the mega-rockets that allow them to overfly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Starship, the spacecraft Elon Musk has designated as the vehicle to transport the first humans to Mars, is about to launch once ...

Starship got off the ground right on time at 7:30 p.m. ET from SpaceX's sprawling Starbase – the complex that doubles as a Texas city and the company's headquarters near the U.S-Mexico border. The ...

Starship, which stands 403 feet tall when fully stacked, is regarded as the world's largest rocket. The spacecraft is due in the years ahead to help ferry NASA astronauts to the lunar surface and also ...

It has been two weeks since SpaceX’s last Starship test flight, and engineers have diagnosed issues with its heat shield, identified improvements, and developed a preliminary plan for the next time ...

SpaceX's Starship rocket soared to new heights for 2025, ending a streak of explosive failures for the Mars-bound vehicle during its latest test flight from Texas. Billionaire Elon Musk and the ...

The launch window for SpaceX's next Starship rocket launch, known as flight 11, opens Monday, Oct. 13. SpaceX launches Starship from Starbase, the company town built about 23 miles from Brownsville in ...