In 1960, a rushed R-16 ICBM launch attempt at Baikonur erupted into a catastrophic pad explosion, then vanished behind a fabricated official story for decades. This is how it happened, why the Soviet ...

SpaceX’s latest test of its upgraded Starship ended in a fireball on the pad, a stark reminder that rapid iteration in rocketry still carries very public risks. The ground test, intended as a routine ...

On Thursday, a SpaceX rocket, along with a satellite leased in part by Facebook, were destroyed in a launch pad explosion at Cape Canaveral. The explosion, in which no people were harmed, occurred ...