A starship driven by a captive black hole sounds like pure science fiction, yet the underlying physics is brutally literal. A tiny, artificial singularity would convert mass into energy with an ...

Fuel leaks on the upper-stage vehicle caused it to spin uncontrollably before its planned re-entry through Earth's atmosphere, ending with a "rapid unscheduled disassembly." SpaceX launched Starship ...

Some time soon, perhaps next year, SpaceX will attempt to fly one of its enormous Starship rockets from low-Earth orbit back to its launch pad in South Texas. A successful return and catch at the ...