SpaceX

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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A promotional image from iSpace includes artwork depicting both a rover and a lander.

A Japanese Company Says It Will Use SpaceX Rockets to Land on the Moon

By Rafi Letzter published

There won't be any people on the first two iSpace landers. But the company said its long term goal is human exploration of the lunar surface.

Elon Musk has claimed his Big Falcon Rocket crew vehicle might one day land on the moon. But that's not in the cards for any missions in the foreseeable future.

Why the SpaceX Lunar Tourists Won't Walk on the Moon

By Rafi Letzter published

Twelve people have walked on the moon, and Elon Musk won't add any Japanese billionaires to that number anytime soon.

The Big Falcon Rocket would have three fins and a retractable forward wing, according to an illustration of the rocket’s design released by SpaceX's Elon Musk.

Japanese Billionaire Will Be First Lunar Tourist. And He Plans to Invite Artists.

By Stephanie Pappas published

Yusaku Maezawa, founder of clothing company ZoZo, will be the first space tourist to travel around the moon, private spaceflight company SpaceX announced tonight (Sept. 17).

SpaceX's Vision for a Mars City

The BFR in Images: SpaceX's Giant Spaceship for Mars Colony & Beyond

By Mike Wall published

spacex big falcon rocket promo

Elon Musk Is Blasting Someone to the Moon, and We Have Questions

By Brandon Specktor published

Elon Musk's lunar flyby is one giant leap for space tourism.

NASA has unveiled the first astronaut crews to fly on private spaceships built by SpaceX and Boeing. The astronauts are: (from left to right) Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley, Nicole Aunapu Mann, Chris Ferguson of Boeing, Eric Boe, Jo

Trump Hails Astronauts That Will Fly on SpaceX and Boeing Spaceships. And Space Force, Too?

By Tariq Malik published

Colonizing Mars

Sorry Elon Musk, Colonizing Mars Is Unlikely. And It's a Bad Idea, Space Scientist Says

By Andrew Coates published

We have learned that there could be life beneath Mars’ surface and that it may be impossible to terraform its surface.

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 published

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

By Rafi Letzter published

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 published

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 published

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 published

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 published

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 published

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 published

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 published

"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 published

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 published

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 published

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 published

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