Elon Musk said in an interview this week with Fox News host Jesse Watters that his focus on Mars has to do with ensuring humanity's longterm survival.

Elon Musk is taking the long view. The billionaire SpaceX founder has long said that humanity needs to expand its footprint out into the solar system — specifically to Mars, which is the most suitable and reachable target — so that we won't go extinct if something bad should happen to Earth.

Elon Musk is betting it can colonize Mars and save humanity, too. The latest step in Musk’s galactic quest is the incorporation of Starbase, Texas, home to his SpaceX rocket company and about 300 eligible voters,

When SpaceX launched its massive Starship rocket for just the second time in November 2023, it didn't just break records—it broke the sky. Scientists have recently revealed that the raw power of the launch punched a temporary hole through the upper atmosphere,

When Elon Musk’s engineers bundled a batch of prototype satellites into a rocket’s nose cone six years ago, there were fewer than 2,000 functional satellites in Earth’s orbit. Many more would soon be on the way: All through the pandemic,