SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket has stumbled on the road to commercial use. On Thursday, it unexpectedly dropped out of communications and exploded as it screamed toward space for its seventh flight.

SpaceX was forced to call off the eighth flight test of its mammoth Starship spacecraft just minutes before the rocket was supposed to launch from the company's facility in Boca Chica, Texas.

Elon Musk's rocket maker SpaceX says it is the company that's going to take us to Mars one day, and its Starship craft is meant to be the spaceship that'll take us there. Before then, it's going ...

Find him on Twitter @GabeWhisnant. Nearly two months after a fiery explosion scattered debris over the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another Starship rocket on Thursday, only to lose contact ...