In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at ancient tool making, SpaceX’s big explosion, reducing AI’s big power draw ...

A look back at all of the spectacular tests — and failures — that have punctuated SpaceX's development of its Starship rocket.

SpaceX — the rocket company founded by Elon Musk — fired up its new Mars rocket-ship prototype for the first time Wednesday. The roughly 60-foot-tall stainless-steel rocket ship, called the ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX is set to launch its Starship rocket for an eighth test flight Monday evening, weeks after the last prototype exploded ... launch vehicle - called 'ship 34.' ...

The upper part, also called Starship or Ship for short, looks like a shiny rocket from science fiction movies of the 1950s, is made of stainless steel with large fins. This is the upper stage that ...

Brush fires burn in the Las Palomas Wildlife Management Refuge near Boca Chica Village, Texas, following SpaceX 's first flight of its Starhopper rocket ship prototype. Late Thursday night ...

SpaceX has revealed that its latest Starship prototype self-destructed during ... disassembly," a tongue-in-cheek term denoting a rocket explosion, occurred after stage separation, when the ...

while a visualization of the rocket's engines showed multiple engines shut down. Then the company said it had lost contact with the ship, and announcers immediately drew a connection to the ...

You turn the page and there's the rocket ship." The vehicle belongs to SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk. It's a prototype of Starship, a rocket-launch system that may stand ...

China’s space programme has moved a step closer to crewed lunar and interplanetary missions with the completion of a prototype super heavy-lift rocket engine, according to state media.