Mariah Davenport and Dane Siler were flying back to the US when their flight turned around because of the SpaceX rocket explosion.

SpaceX has blown up another Starship mega rocket on a test flight. Nearly two months since the last explosion, SpaceX launched another 403-foot Starship from Texas on Thursday, but lost contact with the spacecraft within minutes.

SpaceX said it lost contact with its massive Starship rocket during its highly anticipated test launch on Thursday evening.

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The new version of Starship will be tested again in four to six weeks. A third consecutive failure could indicate fundamental problems with the updated design.

The SpaceX Starship explosion that occurred on Thursday night is the second this year. Here's what happens next.

SpaceX's Starship exploded mid-flight during its eighth test, prompting an FAA-mandated investigation as the company analyzes the cause.

SpaceX's latest Starship to attempt to reach space exploded nine minutes after its launch this week, leaving a trail of debris in its wake. Airports in Florida were forced to halt flights as the threat from impacts extended south to the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands.

Astronauts orbiting 250 miles above Earth got a front-row seat to destruction on Thursday. During a SpaceX flight test of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket and spacecraft system, NASA 's Don Pettit snapped photos from the International Space Station of the ship blowing up.

Elon Musk aims to change spaceflight forever with Starship, but SpaceX hasn't quite gotten the rocket right. Starship Flight 8 lost control on Thursday.

SpaceX's Starship spiraled out of control while in space during a test flight Thursday, marking the second launch in a row that the vehicle has run