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Entrepreneur and business magnate, Elon Musk is the CEO and founder of the aerospace company SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla Motors. He also hopes to change the world, advancing private spaceflight with the aim of landing humans on other planets like Mars, and developing a new tube-transport system called the Hyperloop. Live Science will keep you up on Musk’s latest ideas and developments so you can keep your two feet on Earth while looking up at the stars.

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Watch as a camera set up by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls melts in a grass fire after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on May 22, 2018.

Here's What NASA's 'Toasty' Camera Saw As It Melted After a SpaceX Launch

By Tariq Malik

Scientists Say Elon Musk's 'Nano' Claims Don't Make Any Sense

By Rafi Letzter

The SpaceX and Tesla founder is having a very public meltdown right now, and making some weird claims about a prefix used in some sciences.

Elon Musk speaks at the Tesla Design Studio on April 30, 2015, in Hawthorne, California.

SpaceX's Elon Musk Proposes Media Company That Rates Journalists. Is He Serious?

By Elizabeth Howell

What's behind his posts? Is it just another Musk prank, or is he actually serious about the idea?

If things go south on Earth, could Mars or an exoplanet be Earth 2.0?

Does Humanity Need a Backup Earth?

By Elizabeth Howell

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has a vision: He wants to get humans to Mars as soon as possible. Is that humanity's best option?

tess orbit

Why This New Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope Blows Kepler Out of the Water

By Yasemin Saplakoglu

TESS will have the ultimate view of the night sky from a perfect orbit around Earth.

A long, slim rocket points toward the sky between four tall metal framework towers.

SpaceX Rocket Launching NASA's TESS Exoplanet Hunter Today: Watch Live

By Mike Wall

NASA's next exoplanet-hunting mission is scheduled to launch today (April 16) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and you can watch the action live.

SpaceX Falcon Heavy boosters

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Try to Land a Rocket with a 'Giant Party Balloon'

By Tariq Malik

From anyone else, it would sound ridiculous: Elon Musk says SpaceX is going to try to land a rocket stage with … wait for it … a "giant party balloon."

A launchpad photo provided by SpaceX shows the Falcon 9 carrying Zuma

SpaceX Not to Blame for Loss of Top-Secret Spy Satellite

By Mike Wall

SpaceX isn't responsible for the loss of the top-secret Zuma spy satellite during the craft's launch earlier this year, according to media reports.

Elon Musk Worries That AI Research Will Create an 'Immortal Dictator'

By Brandon Specktor

"It would live forever... and we could never escape," Musk says in a new documentary.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 10 Iridium Next satellites from Space Launch Complex-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base on Friday, March 30.

Why Are People Freaking Out About These Boring SpaceX Satellites?

By Elizabeth Howell

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, seen here after the company's successful Falcon Heavy rocket test launch on Feb. 6, 2018, removed SpaceX and Tesla from Facebook on March 23.

Elon Musk Deletes Facebook Pages for SpaceX and Tesla

By Tariq Malik

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has joined the #deletefacebook movement. He's deleted the Facebook pages for both SpaceX and Tesla.

SpaceX's Roadster Could Be a Martian 'Biothreat'

By Mindy Weisberger

Elon Musk's spacefaring Tesla Roadster is likely carrying the biggest bacteria payload to ever leave Earth.

Tesla Roadster with stars

How We Know This Tiny Pinprick of Light Is the Tesla Roadster

By Laura Geggel

Scientist paparazzi turned their scopes toward Elon Musk's Roadster and its mannequin driver.

Falcon Heavy SpaceX

A Giant Claw Will Grab Falling SpaceX Gear 'Like a Giant Catcher's Mitt'

By Laura Geggel

Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster cruises through space in this video captured by astrophotographer Rogelio Bernal Andreo on Feb. 10, 2018.

Can You Find Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster Zooming Through Space in New Video?

By Hanneke Weitering

After a two-day chase, astrophotographer Rogelio Bernal Andreo captured Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster cruising through the solar system.

Tesla Roadster in space

If 'Starman' Isn't Headed for the Asteroid Belt, Where's That Dummy Going?

By Hanneke Weitering

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launched from its launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Feb. 6, 2018.

The Most Interesting Thing Shot into Space This Week Wasn't a Tesla

By Rafi Letzter

There was a second payload on board the SpaceX Falcon Heavy that launched Tuesday, and it's built to last 14 billion years.

Starman's SpaceX Spacesuit Would Leave You Dead in Minutes

By Brandon Specktor

If you take a deep-space selfie like Starman, make it very, very quick.

Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and Starman cruise away from Earth in this final photo from the car after its launch on SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket on Feb. 6, 2018.

Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and Starman Leave Earth Forever in This Final Photo

By Tariq Malik

A NASA illustration shows the clock in its testbed satellite.

The Next Falcon Heavy Will Carry the Most Powerful Atomic Clock Ever Launched into Space

By Rafi Letzter

A toaster-sized atomic clock will hitch a ride on the next SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch.