The shape is thought to be the result of leftover fuel released into space as the Falcon 9 rocket returned to Earth.

The upper part, also called Starship or Ship for short, looks like a shiny rocket from science fiction ... satellites that are similar in size and shape to spacecraft that will be deployed for ...

The cause of the strange blue spiral is actually a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:48 p.m. EDT (1748 ...

But pointing out that lightweight cardboard tubes can be tricky to ship without getting crushed ... once folded into its final shape the rocket has an awesome hexagonal cross section.

But after the first-stage booster successfully landed atop a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a fire in the aft end of the rocket damaged one of the landing legs — and the booster tipped ...