SpaceX's ambitious Starship program suffered a major setback when its latest test flight ended in a catastrophic mid-air explosion over the Caribbean Sea. SpaceX and Blue Origin. NASA and SpaceX.

Debris from an apparent explosion of the eighth SpaceX Starship test flight was seen lighting up the skies above the Bahamas Thursday night. Video shows the remains of the 400-foot spacecraft from Elon Musk's company,

Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke apart.