Watch SpaceX doused a steel plate with water and then blast Raptor engine fire into it. The private spaceflight company's ...

In a welcome return to active flight vehicle testing after setbacks and facility upgrades, SpaceX made strong progress with ...

A vacuum Raptor engine was recently test-fired after being "chilled to mimic conditions after a long coast period in space," according to SpaceX. Previously, a Raptor was tested to demonstrate the ...

SpaceX is continuing with final preparations for the 10th full-scale test flight of the company’s enormous Starship rocket after receiving launch approval Friday from the Federal Aviation ...

The Earth is much larger than most people realize. You need to use engines if you want to efficiently navigate large sections of the planet. Everything from cars to planes relies on engines, but they ...

SpaceX's Starship spacecraft will soon get a few more Raptor rocket engines than it had before. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

SpaceX has long marketed Starship as a fully and rapidly reusable rocket that’s designed to deliver thousands of pounds of cargo to Mars and make life multiplanetary. But reusability at scale means a ...

The launch, scheduled for mid-October from the company's Texas launch site, would come less than 2 months after SpaceX conducted its most successful Starship test of the year. Prior to vehicle's 10th ...