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Nation and World News » SpaceX Starship rocket explodes in setback to Musk’s Mars mission Friday, June 20, 2025 12:05 am Flames rise as a SpaceX rocket explodes on Wednesday in Brownsville, Texas.

The next window, during which the travel time to Mars is cut down from over a year to just six to nine months, is coming up in late 2026. Musk’s road map suggests SpaceX hopes to send up to five ...

The blast took place about 11 p.m. local time during testing for the mega rocket in Brownsville, a city in Cameron County on the state's southwest Gulf Coast, SpaceX announced on X.

SpaceX's Starship rocket exploded during a test at its Texas Starbase campus. The explosion is the fourth failure for SpaceX's Starship rockets this year.

SpaceX Ship 36 exploding in Starbase, Texas, June 18, 2025. [Photo: Nasa Space Flight] A prototype for SpaceX’s Starship Mars rocket, designated Ship 36, exploded in a massive fireball on June ...

Ukraine’s capital region of Kyiv has reeled from several recent nights of record-breaking Russian drone attacks, with air raid alerts wailing for nearly 130 hours over the past month.

NASA has delayed the launch of four crew members on a privately funded mission to the International Space Station until further notice due to an air leak in one of the orbiting lab’s Russian modules ...