The Texas Senate agreed Friday to make it easier for the new city, home to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to shutter the beach during rocket launches.

And one of those experiments is having the booster rocket being used for a second time, which is a first for Starship.

Voters, many of them SpaceX employees, decided to create a municipality with a small local government in the once-quiet Boca Chica Village area.

A preliminary vote count in Cameron County, Texas, shows 97.25% of voters in favor of incorporating the SpaceX launch site into its own city.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday that it is giving SpaceX the green light to launch Starship from Boca Chica/Starbase for the rocket's ninth suborbital test flight. The FAA's ...

After launch, an apparent propellant leak entered its suborbital trajectory left Starship spinning and mission control unable to control the craft.

SpaceX is aiming to launch its Starship Flight 9 test mission no earlier than Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 GMT), but only if conditions allow.

SpaceX's latest test flight was a failure. The company has seen mixed results after more than two years of launching test ...

SpaceX planned additional tests, including a final landing burn with two rather than the usual three engines to simulate a ...

“But you know what, there’s people that want to go to the beach and enjoy Boca Chica Beach.” SpaceX has purchased large swaths of land here and employs more than 3,000 people. The vote is ...

A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was approved by a small group of Texas voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees.