The mechanics of this rifting involve the lithosphere being subjected to extensional forces, causing it to thin and break apart. Magma from the mantle rises to fill these gaps, leading to volcanic ...

Robert Cardona shot a video of Starship breaking apart as seen over Bryant Park in Lake Worth Beach on Thursday. SpaceX on Thursday lost communication with the rocket just over nine minutes after ...

breaking apart in a spectacular shower of debris. It was the second failure in a row for a Starship upper stage, a vehicle critical to NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon in the next few ...