Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin facing a major setback. The space company's new Glenn Rocket exploding during launch pad tests last night. Blue Origin confirmed it had experienced an anomaly during a so-called hot fire test. That's when a rocket's fired up while ...

Why did staff at Florida's Kennedy Space Centre burst into spontaneous cheers as they watched a rocket explode mid-air?

A massive fireball lit up the Florida coast this week after Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, suffered a dramatic failure during a critical rocket test—raising big questions about what happens next in the billionaire space race. Blue Origin’s ...

On July 29, 1967, USS Forrestal was operating off Vietnam when a rocket accidentally launched across the flight deck and struck an aircraft surrounded by jets loaded with fuel and weapons. The resulting fire triggered a series of explosions as aviation fuel and ordnance fed the growing inferno.

One of China’s most used rockets, the Long March 7A, exploded a little more than a minute after lifting off on Monday evening, local time. The medium-lift rocket’s payload was classified, but it was believed to be a military communications satellite.

The red-hot space sector was feeling some heat on Friday, cooling from some of the spectacular gains seen in May An image grab obtained on May 29 from UGC video content on the X page of @JConcilus and shared on social media shows Blue Origin's New Glenn ...