The company achieved a major milestone during the fifth test flight of the vehicle, which could carry people to the moon and Mars, landing the rocket’s booster stage at a Texas launch site.

A SpaceX booster rocket has returned to Earth and been caught by giant robotic arms - following a successful launch of the company's reusable Starship spacecraft. It was the first attempt to bring ...

This is absolutely insane. On the first ever attempt, we have successfully caught the Super Heavy booster back at the launch tower. What an incredible view. By Kenneth Chang and Eric Lipton SpaceX ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Tuesday, Oct. 15, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on the Starlink 10-10 mission. There's another SpaceX launch on ...

The impending launch represents the fifth uncrewed demonstration of the 400-foot behemoth and will follow last-minute approval from the Federal Aviation Administration. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk ...

Starship's fifth test launch was a ringing success for SpaceX and it's booster-catching mechanical arms. Credit: SERGIO FLORES / Contributor / AFP via Getty Images SpaceX's fifth Starship test ...

The launch tower sported monstrous metal arms, dubbed chopsticks, that caught the descending 232-foot (71-meter) booster. "The tower has caught the rocket!!" Musk said via X. Company employees ...

After launch, the booster traveled back toward the launch site where a set of massive metal arms, called “chopsticks,” caught the booster mid-air to save it from a hard landing. Elon Musk’s ...

Liftoff of the Super Heavy rocket booster, topped with the uncrewed Starship spacecraft, occurred at 8:25 a.m. ET (7:25 a.m. CT) during a 30-minute launch window that opened at 8 a.m. ET from ...

NASA has ordered two Starships to land astronauts on the moon later this decade, and SpaceX eventually intends to use it to send people to Mars. SpaceX pulled off its boldest test flight yet of ...