A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes after launching from Texas on Thursday, forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter course to avoid falling debris and setting back Elon Musk's flagship rocket program.

On Thursday, observers in the Turks and Caicos Islands region witnessed a stream of fireballs light up the evening sky. No, it wasn’t aliens or even meteors—it was the remains of SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft,

Update: Supreme Court upholds law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. Read more. The start of the weekend marks two days until the social media platform TikTok could be banned in the United States. TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance has until Sunday to sell the platform under federal legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden last spring.

The ruling was a blow for TikTok and for Republican President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office Monday and has been seeking a last-ditch solution to save the app, years after he launched the first unsuccessful bid to ban it.