But the triumph was short-lived when teams lost contact with the upper stage vehicle. SpaceX later confirmed it had undergone "rapid unscheduled disassembly," the company's euphemism for an explosion.

SpaceX called the event a "rapid unscheduled disassembly," a tongue-in-cheek term denoting a rocket explosion, "during its ascent burn," in a statement posted to X-formerly-Twitter. "Teams will ...

A massive fire and explosions ripped through an indoor children's park and a casino in the Mexican city of Culiacán on Thursday. A 39-year-old man was rushed to an area hospital for treatment to ...

The Cuban government said Wednesday that 13 soldiers had died after an explosion a week earlier in an arms depot in the country's east. Cuba's Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces said in a ...

Three IDF soldiers were moderately injured, and seven others sustained light injuries on Wednesday night when a weapon exploded during a training exercise at the Engineering Corps Training Base in ...

AND TONIGHT SPACEX JUST CONFIRMED A FIRE BROKE OUT IN THE BACK OF STARSHIP DURING FLIGHT, CAUSING THE EXPLOSION. YOU CAN SEE SOME O After launching from Texas on Thursday, SpaceX lost contact with ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told TechCrunch it had to “briefly” slow and divert a number of aircraft in the airspace near Puerto Rico, where debris was seen falling after SpaceX ...

A “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” or “RUD,” is a phrase SpaceX typically uses to refer to an explosion. Starship had already climbed 90 miles (146 kilometers) in altitude and was ...

A newly released Hubble pic shows the galaxy LEDA 22057, where the supernova explosion occurred. The spiral galaxy's swirling mass centers around an oval-shaped core region with a white glow that ...

A February 2024 house explosion in Sterling killed firefighter Trevor Brown, injured 13 others, and leveled the home. A new report cites issues like poor risk assessment, communication delays ...

BURELSON COUNTY, Texas (KBTX) - The Burleson County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) confirmed an explosion happened at an oil pad in Burleson County on Tuesday morning. BCSO said its deputies joined the ...